6th and 7th dukes

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Currently this page says:

  • 1778-1820: Louis-Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, 12th Duke of Aarschot, 1st Duke of Meppen and 1st Prince of Recklinghausen (1750-1820)
  • 1820-1861: Prosper-Louis, 7th Duke of Arenberg, 13th Duke of Aarschot, 2nd Duke of Meppen and 2nd Prince of Recklinghausen (1785-1861)

But the Arenberg Archives and Cultural Centre (AACC) implies on their The dukes of Arenberg web page that the 6th Duke was no longer Duke in 1801 as the page says about the 7th Duke that "In 1801, lost the former Duchy of Arenberg on the left bank of the Rhine but received a larger duchy on the right bank in 1803, lost in its turn in 1815, overrun by the Prussians and the Hanoverians." What is the source for claiming that the 6th Duke of Arenberg remained the Duke of Arenberg until 1820? --PBS (talk) 12:45, 8 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

The list isn't a list of Dukes of Arenberg, it's a list of Heads of the House of Arenberg. The list says that, Louis-Engelbert, the 6th Duke was head of the House of Arenberg until 1820, which is the year the 6th Duke died, according to this page on the Arenberg Archives and Cultural Center website.
I'm not entirely clear what happened here but this is what I've gleaned from the AAAC website. The House of Arenbergs are the sovereigns of the Duchy of Arenberg, located in the Eifel mountains, and the 6th Duke is the ruler of the duchy. Then, in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, the duchy gets overrun by the French, who sequester the 6th duke's lands. Under the terms of the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), which ends the French Revolutionary Wars, this land is permanently annexed to France. In 1801, the Reichstag, following a commission on how to compensate nobles, decides to secularize a bunch of church land and award it to noble house who had lost land as a result of the Treaty of Lunéville. The Arenberg family gets lands in the County of Vest Recklinghausen, the County of Meppen, and the lordship of Dülmen: these lands constitute the so-called "New Duchy of Arenberg".
Then, the rest can be explained through cutting and pasting from the Arenberg website:
All of which does point up the fact that the quality of this article could stand to be improved, eh? As could the AAAC's articles, for that matter. So much Wikipedia, so little time, though.

Adam_sk (talk) 20:28, 8 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition has an article on this subject see Aremberg or Arenberg. --PBS (talk) 19:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC)Reply