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_id: '60666'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Few principalities were as interwoven with European politics and as prone
    to dichotomous debate as the East Frisian Jever. At the mouth of the Weser and
    in the back of the Dutch republic, Jever conjoined the Western and Nordic struggles
    of the seventeenth century. It proved crucial during the French invasions of the
    Low Countries and it enabled Denmark-Norway to march on a wider front against
    Swedish possessions on the continent. When the Danish king in 1677 tried to add
    Jever to his Oldenburg titles, he was thus locked in a conflict between Spain
    and France regarding the overlordship over Jever. This revealed larger interests
    because Jever was connected to the Holy Roman Empire through feudal bonds with
    the Spanish Netherlands and the Burgundian Circle that unified these Netherlands.
    The presentation will show how the prima vista dichotomy of French or Spanish
    overlordship over Jever carried the real debate whether Jever – and thus the Spanish
    Netherlands – belonged to the Empire or not. In claiming the right to hand Jever
    to Denmark for an alliance, French Louis XIV not only severed the Spanish Netherlands
    from imperial support. He also disintegrated them. Spain therefore couldn’t accept
    foreign overlordship over Netherlandish fiefs and needed Jever to solicit Danish
    support against the French. Meanwhile, the Emperor fought the intrusion of France’s
    Réunion policy in the Empire whilst Brandeburg and Sweden meddled to manoeuvre
    Denmark within the ongoing Nordic struggle. The outcome of the debate (at the
    imperial Diet as well as the Danish court) would ultimately decide the margins
    within the Empire to choose alliances. Jever thus demonstrates how interwoven
    dependencies of territories could provoke dichotomies that shifted strategic policies.
author:
- first_name: Yves
  full_name: Huybrechts, Yves
  id: '78579'
  last_name: Huybrechts
  orcid: 0009-0009-2166-9794
citation:
  ama: Huybrechts Y. In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims to
    the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689).
  apa: Huybrechts, Y. (n.d.). <i>In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish
    claims to the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689)</i>.
    Norwegian History Days, Bodø.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Huybrechts, title={In or out of the Empire? The implications
    of Danish claims to the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity 
    (1675-1689)}, author={Huybrechts, Yves} }'
  chicago: Huybrechts, Yves. “In or out of the Empire? The Implications of Danish
    Claims to the Principality of Jever for Netherlandish Territorial Integrity  (1675-1689),”
    n.d.
  ieee: Y. Huybrechts, “In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims
    to the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689),”
    presented at the Norwegian History Days, Bodø.
  mla: Huybrechts, Yves. <i>In or out of the Empire? The Implications of Danish Claims
    to the Principality of Jever for Netherlandish Territorial Integrity  (1675-1689)</i>.
  short: 'Y. Huybrechts, in: n.d.'
conference:
  end_date: 2024-06-29
  location: Bodø
  name: Norwegian History Days
  start_date: 2024-06-27
date_created: 2025-07-19T12:29:16Z
date_updated: 2025-07-19T12:34:01Z
department:
- _id: '6'
language:
- iso: eng
publication_status: submitted
status: public
title: In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims to the principality
  of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689)
type: conference
user_id: '78579'
year: '2026'
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