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Thurn und Taxis is a German princely family most famous for starting the first modern postal service. Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle, but it isn’t clear where exactly it was. So where was it located in the empire? Or was it not landed?










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    I'm disappointed that they started a postal service rather than a transit service.

    – David Richerby
    Apr 25 at 18:19






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    @DavidRicherby While the written word fits, it's pronounced more like "tuck-siss".

    – R. Schmitz
    Apr 26 at 8:59












  • Which would be the correct pronounciation for "Taxis" (as in, cabs) in German.

    – rackandboneman
    Apr 26 at 9:22











  • @rackandboneman Cab: ˈtaksi, ˈtaksiːs Family: ˈtaksis (the cab plural has a slightly longer i)

    – LangLangC
    Apr 26 at 10:30

















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Thurn und Taxis is a German princely family most famous for starting the first modern postal service. Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle, but it isn’t clear where exactly it was. So where was it located in the empire? Or was it not landed?










share|improve this question





















  • 8





    I'm disappointed that they started a postal service rather than a transit service.

    – David Richerby
    Apr 25 at 18:19






  • 1





    @DavidRicherby While the written word fits, it's pronounced more like "tuck-siss".

    – R. Schmitz
    Apr 26 at 8:59












  • Which would be the correct pronounciation for "Taxis" (as in, cabs) in German.

    – rackandboneman
    Apr 26 at 9:22











  • @rackandboneman Cab: ˈtaksi, ˈtaksiːs Family: ˈtaksis (the cab plural has a slightly longer i)

    – LangLangC
    Apr 26 at 10:30













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Thurn und Taxis is a German princely family most famous for starting the first modern postal service. Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle, but it isn’t clear where exactly it was. So where was it located in the empire? Or was it not landed?










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Thurn und Taxis is a German princely family most famous for starting the first modern postal service. Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle, but it isn’t clear where exactly it was. So where was it located in the empire? Or was it not landed?







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  • 8





    I'm disappointed that they started a postal service rather than a transit service.

    – David Richerby
    Apr 25 at 18:19






  • 1





    @DavidRicherby While the written word fits, it's pronounced more like "tuck-siss".

    – R. Schmitz
    Apr 26 at 8:59












  • Which would be the correct pronounciation for "Taxis" (as in, cabs) in German.

    – rackandboneman
    Apr 26 at 9:22











  • @rackandboneman Cab: ˈtaksi, ˈtaksiːs Family: ˈtaksis (the cab plural has a slightly longer i)

    – LangLangC
    Apr 26 at 10:30












  • 8





    I'm disappointed that they started a postal service rather than a transit service.

    – David Richerby
    Apr 25 at 18:19






  • 1





    @DavidRicherby While the written word fits, it's pronounced more like "tuck-siss".

    – R. Schmitz
    Apr 26 at 8:59












  • Which would be the correct pronounciation for "Taxis" (as in, cabs) in German.

    – rackandboneman
    Apr 26 at 9:22











  • @rackandboneman Cab: ˈtaksi, ˈtaksiːs Family: ˈtaksis (the cab plural has a slightly longer i)

    – LangLangC
    Apr 26 at 10:30







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I'm disappointed that they started a postal service rather than a transit service.

– David Richerby
Apr 25 at 18:19





I'm disappointed that they started a postal service rather than a transit service.

– David Richerby
Apr 25 at 18:19




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1





@DavidRicherby While the written word fits, it's pronounced more like "tuck-siss".

– R. Schmitz
Apr 26 at 8:59






@DavidRicherby While the written word fits, it's pronounced more like "tuck-siss".

– R. Schmitz
Apr 26 at 8:59














Which would be the correct pronounciation for "Taxis" (as in, cabs) in German.

– rackandboneman
Apr 26 at 9:22





Which would be the correct pronounciation for "Taxis" (as in, cabs) in German.

– rackandboneman
Apr 26 at 9:22













@rackandboneman Cab: ˈtaksi, ˈtaksiːs Family: ˈtaksis (the cab plural has a slightly longer i)

– LangLangC
Apr 26 at 10:30





@rackandboneman Cab: ˈtaksi, ˈtaksiːs Family: ˈtaksis (the cab plural has a slightly longer i)

– LangLangC
Apr 26 at 10:30










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Nowhere. As at the time they were introduced to that circle, they were not landed.




The family Tasso originated in Lombardy and made up their genealogy to include "were once rulers there". While the Rhenish Circle consisted mainly of territories, represented by their rulers, the Thurn und Taxis family were personal members of that circle.



This was compensation for the debts the emperor had with them. An exception; and quite vigorously opposed by the other, traditional, landed rulers.



Also note that




Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle…




is not the correct reading for this. Wikipedia lists them as members (and unlike the correct German Wikipedia, the English Wikipedia confuses readers with the table heading "states", while correctly grouping "Type of entity: Barons –– Briefadel without territory, Freiherren from 1608, Counts from 1624, raised to Princely Counts in 1695"




Cornello dei Tasso at Camerata Cornello, Lombardy
The Lombard dynasty first appears in documents with Reinerius de Tasso in 1117. Odonus de Taxo is mentioned 1146 in Val Brembana, north of Bergamo; there the name also appears around 1200 in Almenno. During the battles between Guelphs and Ghibellines in Bergamo, between the Colleoni and Suardi families, the family moved to Camerata Cornello, a few kilometres higher in the valley. Here, with Homodeus de Tazzis (Italian: Omodeo de Tassis del Cornello) in 1251, the line of the tribes begins. The hamlet of Cornello dei Tasso still reminds us of the family.



Tasso is the Italian word for badger, the heraldic animal of the family, Dax, Daxen, from which the name Taxis developed. In the French-speaking postal contract of 1505 between Philip the Fair and Francis of Taxis, the de Tassis family was named, as is still customary in French today.



Thurn

When the Taxis, which had meanwhile moved to Brussels, were elevated to the status of hereditary counts in 1624, they needed an illustrious ancestry to legitimise their intended advancement to the high nobility. Alexandrine von Taxis commissioned genealogists to "clarify" the origin of the taxis, which until then had only been regarded as a small family of knights who had changed to the merchant class. They now claimed, albeit without documentary evidence, that the taxis descended from the Italian noble family of the Torriani, or della Torre, who had ruled in Milan and Lombardy until 1311. As a result, the taxis applied to the emperor for a change of name. During the Germanization the tower (Torre) became Thurn (cf. mhd. turn) and the tower was added as coat of arms multiplication.



Thurn and Taxis

From 1650, with the permission of Emperor Ferdinand III of Thurn, Brussels taxis were allowed to call themselves Valsassina and Taxis, which became Thurn und Taxis, in French de la Tour et Tassis, in Italian della Torre e Tasso. Also the Innsbrucker and the Augsburger branch of the family renamed themselves.




The early ennoblement wasn't all there is to it:




In 1681, the Brussels line (later in Frankfurt and Regensburg) was elevated to the Spanish-Dutch princely estate with Eugen Alexander, with Braine-le-Château as Titular Principality (Principauté de la Tour et Tassis), and in 1695 to the Imperial Princely Estate, although at that time no territorial possession existed in the Empire. In 1704 he was admitted to the Imperial Princely Council, with a share of the Kuriatstimme of the Kurrheinischen Kreis at the Reichstag; in 1724 he was admitted to the Schwäbisches Reichsgrafenkollegium for Eglingen; in 1754 he received a Virilstimme for the Reichsgeneralerbpostmeisteramt; in 1803 he received another Virilstimme for the Reichsfürstentum Buchau. Since 1741 the house on the "Perpetual Reichstag" has been the principal commissioner.
(Translated from Wikipedia Thurn und Taxis)



So the princely house Thurn and Taxis was 'an estate' of the Kurrheinischen Circle, but did not possess a plot of land in the same… (src)




This is not to say that they didn't have any territory under their control, despite having a clear centre for their lives in either Brussels or Frankfurt when they entered the Kurrheinische Reichskreis. The full title of Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis (a mere century later, 1733–1805) was




Des Hl. Röm. Reiches Fürst zu Thurn und Taxis, Graf zu Valvasina, Freiherr zu Impden, Herr der Freien Reichsherrschaft Eglingen und Osterhofen, Balmershofen, Durtenstein, Wolfertheim, Rossum und Meusseghem, der souveränen Provinz Hennegau Erbmarschall
Michael Müller: "Die Entwicklung des Kurrheinischen Kreises in seiner Verbindung mit dem Oberrheinischen Kreis im 18. Jahrhundert", Peter Lang, 2008. (p 126–129)




The point here is that none of their lands where within the Reichskreis and those lands they did own at the end of the 17th century were private property, not princely estates eligible for being a member of a Kreis.






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    However the family has had extensive personal land holdings (as distinct from fiefs) for centuries, in North Brabant originally and later around Regensburg where they received Emmeram Castle when the Archbishopric of Regensburg was granted to Bavaria as gratitude for their participation in the 1809 war with Austria.

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    @PieterGeerkens That is correct, but also a bit too late to be of any consequence for personal then hereditary personal membership in such a Reichskreis. It was exceptional to even create just such a new estate. // Funnily, what Napoleon took away, they gained again from secularisation, amply, as if a 'real prince' in that process of concentration. Quite the survivors, bargainers and profiteers.

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Nowhere. As at the time they were introduced to that circle, they were not landed.




The family Tasso originated in Lombardy and made up their genealogy to include "were once rulers there". While the Rhenish Circle consisted mainly of territories, represented by their rulers, the Thurn und Taxis family were personal members of that circle.



This was compensation for the debts the emperor had with them. An exception; and quite vigorously opposed by the other, traditional, landed rulers.



Also note that




Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle…




is not the correct reading for this. Wikipedia lists them as members (and unlike the correct German Wikipedia, the English Wikipedia confuses readers with the table heading "states", while correctly grouping "Type of entity: Barons –– Briefadel without territory, Freiherren from 1608, Counts from 1624, raised to Princely Counts in 1695"




Cornello dei Tasso at Camerata Cornello, Lombardy
The Lombard dynasty first appears in documents with Reinerius de Tasso in 1117. Odonus de Taxo is mentioned 1146 in Val Brembana, north of Bergamo; there the name also appears around 1200 in Almenno. During the battles between Guelphs and Ghibellines in Bergamo, between the Colleoni and Suardi families, the family moved to Camerata Cornello, a few kilometres higher in the valley. Here, with Homodeus de Tazzis (Italian: Omodeo de Tassis del Cornello) in 1251, the line of the tribes begins. The hamlet of Cornello dei Tasso still reminds us of the family.



Tasso is the Italian word for badger, the heraldic animal of the family, Dax, Daxen, from which the name Taxis developed. In the French-speaking postal contract of 1505 between Philip the Fair and Francis of Taxis, the de Tassis family was named, as is still customary in French today.



Thurn

When the Taxis, which had meanwhile moved to Brussels, were elevated to the status of hereditary counts in 1624, they needed an illustrious ancestry to legitimise their intended advancement to the high nobility. Alexandrine von Taxis commissioned genealogists to "clarify" the origin of the taxis, which until then had only been regarded as a small family of knights who had changed to the merchant class. They now claimed, albeit without documentary evidence, that the taxis descended from the Italian noble family of the Torriani, or della Torre, who had ruled in Milan and Lombardy until 1311. As a result, the taxis applied to the emperor for a change of name. During the Germanization the tower (Torre) became Thurn (cf. mhd. turn) and the tower was added as coat of arms multiplication.



Thurn and Taxis

From 1650, with the permission of Emperor Ferdinand III of Thurn, Brussels taxis were allowed to call themselves Valsassina and Taxis, which became Thurn und Taxis, in French de la Tour et Tassis, in Italian della Torre e Tasso. Also the Innsbrucker and the Augsburger branch of the family renamed themselves.




The early ennoblement wasn't all there is to it:




In 1681, the Brussels line (later in Frankfurt and Regensburg) was elevated to the Spanish-Dutch princely estate with Eugen Alexander, with Braine-le-Château as Titular Principality (Principauté de la Tour et Tassis), and in 1695 to the Imperial Princely Estate, although at that time no territorial possession existed in the Empire. In 1704 he was admitted to the Imperial Princely Council, with a share of the Kuriatstimme of the Kurrheinischen Kreis at the Reichstag; in 1724 he was admitted to the Schwäbisches Reichsgrafenkollegium for Eglingen; in 1754 he received a Virilstimme for the Reichsgeneralerbpostmeisteramt; in 1803 he received another Virilstimme for the Reichsfürstentum Buchau. Since 1741 the house on the "Perpetual Reichstag" has been the principal commissioner.
(Translated from Wikipedia Thurn und Taxis)



So the princely house Thurn and Taxis was 'an estate' of the Kurrheinischen Circle, but did not possess a plot of land in the same… (src)




This is not to say that they didn't have any territory under their control, despite having a clear centre for their lives in either Brussels or Frankfurt when they entered the Kurrheinische Reichskreis. The full title of Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis (a mere century later, 1733–1805) was




Des Hl. Röm. Reiches Fürst zu Thurn und Taxis, Graf zu Valvasina, Freiherr zu Impden, Herr der Freien Reichsherrschaft Eglingen und Osterhofen, Balmershofen, Durtenstein, Wolfertheim, Rossum und Meusseghem, der souveränen Provinz Hennegau Erbmarschall
Michael Müller: "Die Entwicklung des Kurrheinischen Kreises in seiner Verbindung mit dem Oberrheinischen Kreis im 18. Jahrhundert", Peter Lang, 2008. (p 126–129)




The point here is that none of their lands where within the Reichskreis and those lands they did own at the end of the 17th century were private property, not princely estates eligible for being a member of a Kreis.






share|improve this answer























  • 3





    However the family has had extensive personal land holdings (as distinct from fiefs) for centuries, in North Brabant originally and later around Regensburg where they received Emmeram Castle when the Archbishopric of Regensburg was granted to Bavaria as gratitude for their participation in the 1809 war with Austria.

    – Pieter Geerkens
    Apr 25 at 16:51







  • 2





    @PieterGeerkens That is correct, but also a bit too late to be of any consequence for personal then hereditary personal membership in such a Reichskreis. It was exceptional to even create just such a new estate. // Funnily, what Napoleon took away, they gained again from secularisation, amply, as if a 'real prince' in that process of concentration. Quite the survivors, bargainers and profiteers.

    – LangLangC
    Apr 25 at 17:08















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Nowhere. As at the time they were introduced to that circle, they were not landed.




The family Tasso originated in Lombardy and made up their genealogy to include "were once rulers there". While the Rhenish Circle consisted mainly of territories, represented by their rulers, the Thurn und Taxis family were personal members of that circle.



This was compensation for the debts the emperor had with them. An exception; and quite vigorously opposed by the other, traditional, landed rulers.



Also note that




Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle…




is not the correct reading for this. Wikipedia lists them as members (and unlike the correct German Wikipedia, the English Wikipedia confuses readers with the table heading "states", while correctly grouping "Type of entity: Barons –– Briefadel without territory, Freiherren from 1608, Counts from 1624, raised to Princely Counts in 1695"




Cornello dei Tasso at Camerata Cornello, Lombardy
The Lombard dynasty first appears in documents with Reinerius de Tasso in 1117. Odonus de Taxo is mentioned 1146 in Val Brembana, north of Bergamo; there the name also appears around 1200 in Almenno. During the battles between Guelphs and Ghibellines in Bergamo, between the Colleoni and Suardi families, the family moved to Camerata Cornello, a few kilometres higher in the valley. Here, with Homodeus de Tazzis (Italian: Omodeo de Tassis del Cornello) in 1251, the line of the tribes begins. The hamlet of Cornello dei Tasso still reminds us of the family.



Tasso is the Italian word for badger, the heraldic animal of the family, Dax, Daxen, from which the name Taxis developed. In the French-speaking postal contract of 1505 between Philip the Fair and Francis of Taxis, the de Tassis family was named, as is still customary in French today.



Thurn

When the Taxis, which had meanwhile moved to Brussels, were elevated to the status of hereditary counts in 1624, they needed an illustrious ancestry to legitimise their intended advancement to the high nobility. Alexandrine von Taxis commissioned genealogists to "clarify" the origin of the taxis, which until then had only been regarded as a small family of knights who had changed to the merchant class. They now claimed, albeit without documentary evidence, that the taxis descended from the Italian noble family of the Torriani, or della Torre, who had ruled in Milan and Lombardy until 1311. As a result, the taxis applied to the emperor for a change of name. During the Germanization the tower (Torre) became Thurn (cf. mhd. turn) and the tower was added as coat of arms multiplication.



Thurn and Taxis

From 1650, with the permission of Emperor Ferdinand III of Thurn, Brussels taxis were allowed to call themselves Valsassina and Taxis, which became Thurn und Taxis, in French de la Tour et Tassis, in Italian della Torre e Tasso. Also the Innsbrucker and the Augsburger branch of the family renamed themselves.




The early ennoblement wasn't all there is to it:




In 1681, the Brussels line (later in Frankfurt and Regensburg) was elevated to the Spanish-Dutch princely estate with Eugen Alexander, with Braine-le-Château as Titular Principality (Principauté de la Tour et Tassis), and in 1695 to the Imperial Princely Estate, although at that time no territorial possession existed in the Empire. In 1704 he was admitted to the Imperial Princely Council, with a share of the Kuriatstimme of the Kurrheinischen Kreis at the Reichstag; in 1724 he was admitted to the Schwäbisches Reichsgrafenkollegium for Eglingen; in 1754 he received a Virilstimme for the Reichsgeneralerbpostmeisteramt; in 1803 he received another Virilstimme for the Reichsfürstentum Buchau. Since 1741 the house on the "Perpetual Reichstag" has been the principal commissioner.
(Translated from Wikipedia Thurn und Taxis)



So the princely house Thurn and Taxis was 'an estate' of the Kurrheinischen Circle, but did not possess a plot of land in the same… (src)




This is not to say that they didn't have any territory under their control, despite having a clear centre for their lives in either Brussels or Frankfurt when they entered the Kurrheinische Reichskreis. The full title of Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis (a mere century later, 1733–1805) was




Des Hl. Röm. Reiches Fürst zu Thurn und Taxis, Graf zu Valvasina, Freiherr zu Impden, Herr der Freien Reichsherrschaft Eglingen und Osterhofen, Balmershofen, Durtenstein, Wolfertheim, Rossum und Meusseghem, der souveränen Provinz Hennegau Erbmarschall
Michael Müller: "Die Entwicklung des Kurrheinischen Kreises in seiner Verbindung mit dem Oberrheinischen Kreis im 18. Jahrhundert", Peter Lang, 2008. (p 126–129)




The point here is that none of their lands where within the Reichskreis and those lands they did own at the end of the 17th century were private property, not princely estates eligible for being a member of a Kreis.






share|improve this answer























  • 3





    However the family has had extensive personal land holdings (as distinct from fiefs) for centuries, in North Brabant originally and later around Regensburg where they received Emmeram Castle when the Archbishopric of Regensburg was granted to Bavaria as gratitude for their participation in the 1809 war with Austria.

    – Pieter Geerkens
    Apr 25 at 16:51







  • 2





    @PieterGeerkens That is correct, but also a bit too late to be of any consequence for personal then hereditary personal membership in such a Reichskreis. It was exceptional to even create just such a new estate. // Funnily, what Napoleon took away, they gained again from secularisation, amply, as if a 'real prince' in that process of concentration. Quite the survivors, bargainers and profiteers.

    – LangLangC
    Apr 25 at 17:08













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Nowhere. As at the time they were introduced to that circle, they were not landed.




The family Tasso originated in Lombardy and made up their genealogy to include "were once rulers there". While the Rhenish Circle consisted mainly of territories, represented by their rulers, the Thurn und Taxis family were personal members of that circle.



This was compensation for the debts the emperor had with them. An exception; and quite vigorously opposed by the other, traditional, landed rulers.



Also note that




Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle…




is not the correct reading for this. Wikipedia lists them as members (and unlike the correct German Wikipedia, the English Wikipedia confuses readers with the table heading "states", while correctly grouping "Type of entity: Barons –– Briefadel without territory, Freiherren from 1608, Counts from 1624, raised to Princely Counts in 1695"




Cornello dei Tasso at Camerata Cornello, Lombardy
The Lombard dynasty first appears in documents with Reinerius de Tasso in 1117. Odonus de Taxo is mentioned 1146 in Val Brembana, north of Bergamo; there the name also appears around 1200 in Almenno. During the battles between Guelphs and Ghibellines in Bergamo, between the Colleoni and Suardi families, the family moved to Camerata Cornello, a few kilometres higher in the valley. Here, with Homodeus de Tazzis (Italian: Omodeo de Tassis del Cornello) in 1251, the line of the tribes begins. The hamlet of Cornello dei Tasso still reminds us of the family.



Tasso is the Italian word for badger, the heraldic animal of the family, Dax, Daxen, from which the name Taxis developed. In the French-speaking postal contract of 1505 between Philip the Fair and Francis of Taxis, the de Tassis family was named, as is still customary in French today.



Thurn

When the Taxis, which had meanwhile moved to Brussels, were elevated to the status of hereditary counts in 1624, they needed an illustrious ancestry to legitimise their intended advancement to the high nobility. Alexandrine von Taxis commissioned genealogists to "clarify" the origin of the taxis, which until then had only been regarded as a small family of knights who had changed to the merchant class. They now claimed, albeit without documentary evidence, that the taxis descended from the Italian noble family of the Torriani, or della Torre, who had ruled in Milan and Lombardy until 1311. As a result, the taxis applied to the emperor for a change of name. During the Germanization the tower (Torre) became Thurn (cf. mhd. turn) and the tower was added as coat of arms multiplication.



Thurn and Taxis

From 1650, with the permission of Emperor Ferdinand III of Thurn, Brussels taxis were allowed to call themselves Valsassina and Taxis, which became Thurn und Taxis, in French de la Tour et Tassis, in Italian della Torre e Tasso. Also the Innsbrucker and the Augsburger branch of the family renamed themselves.




The early ennoblement wasn't all there is to it:




In 1681, the Brussels line (later in Frankfurt and Regensburg) was elevated to the Spanish-Dutch princely estate with Eugen Alexander, with Braine-le-Château as Titular Principality (Principauté de la Tour et Tassis), and in 1695 to the Imperial Princely Estate, although at that time no territorial possession existed in the Empire. In 1704 he was admitted to the Imperial Princely Council, with a share of the Kuriatstimme of the Kurrheinischen Kreis at the Reichstag; in 1724 he was admitted to the Schwäbisches Reichsgrafenkollegium for Eglingen; in 1754 he received a Virilstimme for the Reichsgeneralerbpostmeisteramt; in 1803 he received another Virilstimme for the Reichsfürstentum Buchau. Since 1741 the house on the "Perpetual Reichstag" has been the principal commissioner.
(Translated from Wikipedia Thurn und Taxis)



So the princely house Thurn and Taxis was 'an estate' of the Kurrheinischen Circle, but did not possess a plot of land in the same… (src)




This is not to say that they didn't have any territory under their control, despite having a clear centre for their lives in either Brussels or Frankfurt when they entered the Kurrheinische Reichskreis. The full title of Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis (a mere century later, 1733–1805) was




Des Hl. Röm. Reiches Fürst zu Thurn und Taxis, Graf zu Valvasina, Freiherr zu Impden, Herr der Freien Reichsherrschaft Eglingen und Osterhofen, Balmershofen, Durtenstein, Wolfertheim, Rossum und Meusseghem, der souveränen Provinz Hennegau Erbmarschall
Michael Müller: "Die Entwicklung des Kurrheinischen Kreises in seiner Verbindung mit dem Oberrheinischen Kreis im 18. Jahrhundert", Peter Lang, 2008. (p 126–129)




The point here is that none of their lands where within the Reichskreis and those lands they did own at the end of the 17th century were private property, not princely estates eligible for being a member of a Kreis.






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Nowhere. As at the time they were introduced to that circle, they were not landed.




The family Tasso originated in Lombardy and made up their genealogy to include "were once rulers there". While the Rhenish Circle consisted mainly of territories, represented by their rulers, the Thurn und Taxis family were personal members of that circle.



This was compensation for the debts the emperor had with them. An exception; and quite vigorously opposed by the other, traditional, landed rulers.



Also note that




Wikipedia lists the County of Thurn und Taxis as a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Electoral Rhenish Circle…




is not the correct reading for this. Wikipedia lists them as members (and unlike the correct German Wikipedia, the English Wikipedia confuses readers with the table heading "states", while correctly grouping "Type of entity: Barons –– Briefadel without territory, Freiherren from 1608, Counts from 1624, raised to Princely Counts in 1695"




Cornello dei Tasso at Camerata Cornello, Lombardy
The Lombard dynasty first appears in documents with Reinerius de Tasso in 1117. Odonus de Taxo is mentioned 1146 in Val Brembana, north of Bergamo; there the name also appears around 1200 in Almenno. During the battles between Guelphs and Ghibellines in Bergamo, between the Colleoni and Suardi families, the family moved to Camerata Cornello, a few kilometres higher in the valley. Here, with Homodeus de Tazzis (Italian: Omodeo de Tassis del Cornello) in 1251, the line of the tribes begins. The hamlet of Cornello dei Tasso still reminds us of the family.



Tasso is the Italian word for badger, the heraldic animal of the family, Dax, Daxen, from which the name Taxis developed. In the French-speaking postal contract of 1505 between Philip the Fair and Francis of Taxis, the de Tassis family was named, as is still customary in French today.



Thurn

When the Taxis, which had meanwhile moved to Brussels, were elevated to the status of hereditary counts in 1624, they needed an illustrious ancestry to legitimise their intended advancement to the high nobility. Alexandrine von Taxis commissioned genealogists to "clarify" the origin of the taxis, which until then had only been regarded as a small family of knights who had changed to the merchant class. They now claimed, albeit without documentary evidence, that the taxis descended from the Italian noble family of the Torriani, or della Torre, who had ruled in Milan and Lombardy until 1311. As a result, the taxis applied to the emperor for a change of name. During the Germanization the tower (Torre) became Thurn (cf. mhd. turn) and the tower was added as coat of arms multiplication.



Thurn and Taxis

From 1650, with the permission of Emperor Ferdinand III of Thurn, Brussels taxis were allowed to call themselves Valsassina and Taxis, which became Thurn und Taxis, in French de la Tour et Tassis, in Italian della Torre e Tasso. Also the Innsbrucker and the Augsburger branch of the family renamed themselves.




The early ennoblement wasn't all there is to it:




In 1681, the Brussels line (later in Frankfurt and Regensburg) was elevated to the Spanish-Dutch princely estate with Eugen Alexander, with Braine-le-Château as Titular Principality (Principauté de la Tour et Tassis), and in 1695 to the Imperial Princely Estate, although at that time no territorial possession existed in the Empire. In 1704 he was admitted to the Imperial Princely Council, with a share of the Kuriatstimme of the Kurrheinischen Kreis at the Reichstag; in 1724 he was admitted to the Schwäbisches Reichsgrafenkollegium for Eglingen; in 1754 he received a Virilstimme for the Reichsgeneralerbpostmeisteramt; in 1803 he received another Virilstimme for the Reichsfürstentum Buchau. Since 1741 the house on the "Perpetual Reichstag" has been the principal commissioner.
(Translated from Wikipedia Thurn und Taxis)



So the princely house Thurn and Taxis was 'an estate' of the Kurrheinischen Circle, but did not possess a plot of land in the same… (src)




This is not to say that they didn't have any territory under their control, despite having a clear centre for their lives in either Brussels or Frankfurt when they entered the Kurrheinische Reichskreis. The full title of Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis (a mere century later, 1733–1805) was




Des Hl. Röm. Reiches Fürst zu Thurn und Taxis, Graf zu Valvasina, Freiherr zu Impden, Herr der Freien Reichsherrschaft Eglingen und Osterhofen, Balmershofen, Durtenstein, Wolfertheim, Rossum und Meusseghem, der souveränen Provinz Hennegau Erbmarschall
Michael Müller: "Die Entwicklung des Kurrheinischen Kreises in seiner Verbindung mit dem Oberrheinischen Kreis im 18. Jahrhundert", Peter Lang, 2008. (p 126–129)




The point here is that none of their lands where within the Reichskreis and those lands they did own at the end of the 17th century were private property, not princely estates eligible for being a member of a Kreis.







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    However the family has had extensive personal land holdings (as distinct from fiefs) for centuries, in North Brabant originally and later around Regensburg where they received Emmeram Castle when the Archbishopric of Regensburg was granted to Bavaria as gratitude for their participation in the 1809 war with Austria.

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    @PieterGeerkens That is correct, but also a bit too late to be of any consequence for personal then hereditary personal membership in such a Reichskreis. It was exceptional to even create just such a new estate. // Funnily, what Napoleon took away, they gained again from secularisation, amply, as if a 'real prince' in that process of concentration. Quite the survivors, bargainers and profiteers.

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    However the family has had extensive personal land holdings (as distinct from fiefs) for centuries, in North Brabant originally and later around Regensburg where they received Emmeram Castle when the Archbishopric of Regensburg was granted to Bavaria as gratitude for their participation in the 1809 war with Austria.

    – Pieter Geerkens
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    @PieterGeerkens That is correct, but also a bit too late to be of any consequence for personal then hereditary personal membership in such a Reichskreis. It was exceptional to even create just such a new estate. // Funnily, what Napoleon took away, they gained again from secularisation, amply, as if a 'real prince' in that process of concentration. Quite the survivors, bargainers and profiteers.

    – LangLangC
    Apr 25 at 17:08







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However the family has had extensive personal land holdings (as distinct from fiefs) for centuries, in North Brabant originally and later around Regensburg where they received Emmeram Castle when the Archbishopric of Regensburg was granted to Bavaria as gratitude for their participation in the 1809 war with Austria.

– Pieter Geerkens
Apr 25 at 16:51






However the family has had extensive personal land holdings (as distinct from fiefs) for centuries, in North Brabant originally and later around Regensburg where they received Emmeram Castle when the Archbishopric of Regensburg was granted to Bavaria as gratitude for their participation in the 1809 war with Austria.

– Pieter Geerkens
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@PieterGeerkens That is correct, but also a bit too late to be of any consequence for personal then hereditary personal membership in such a Reichskreis. It was exceptional to even create just such a new estate. // Funnily, what Napoleon took away, they gained again from secularisation, amply, as if a 'real prince' in that process of concentration. Quite the survivors, bargainers and profiteers.

– LangLangC
Apr 25 at 17:08





@PieterGeerkens That is correct, but also a bit too late to be of any consequence for personal then hereditary personal membership in such a Reichskreis. It was exceptional to even create just such a new estate. // Funnily, what Napoleon took away, they gained again from secularisation, amply, as if a 'real prince' in that process of concentration. Quite the survivors, bargainers and profiteers.

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