Editing Principality of Ansbach (section)

{{Short description|Free Imperial principality in the Holy Roman Empire (1398–1791)}}
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{{Infobox country
|native_name            = {{native name|de|Markgrafschaft Brandenburg-Ansbach/Fürstentum Ansbach}}
|conventional_long_name = Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach/Principality of Ansbach
|common_name            = Ansbach
|era                    = [[Early modern period]]
|status                 = [[Principality]]
|empire                 = Holy Roman Empire
|today                  = [[Germany]]
|year_start             = 1398
|year_end               = 1791
|event_pre              = [[Imperial City of Nuremberg|Nuremberg became<br/>imperial city]]
|date_pre               = <br/>1219
|event_start            = Partition of<br/>[[burgraviate of Nuremberg|burgraviate]]
|date_start             = <br/>21 January
|event1                 = [[Personal union]] with<br/>[[Electorate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]]
|date_event1            = <br/>1415–40
|event2                 = Reunion with<br/>[[Brandenburg-Bayreuth|Bayreuth]]
|date_event2            = <br/>11 June 1420
|event3                 = <nowiki>Repartition</nowiki>
|date_event3            = 21 September 1440
|event4                 = Restoration of<br/>personal union
|date_event4            = <br/>1470–86
|event_end              = Margraviate sold<br/>to [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]]
|date_end               = <br/>2 December
|event_post             = Formal annexation
|date_post              = 28 January 1792
|p1                     = Burgraviate of Nuremberg
|flag_p1               = Burgraves of Nuremberg (Eigener Entwurf Version 2).svg
|s1                     = Kingdom of Prussia
|flag_s1                = Flag of Prussia (1750).svg
|image_coat             = Principato di Ansbach.svg
| symbol                = House of Hohenzollern#Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1398–1791)
|image_map              = Principality of Ansbach 1791.png
|image_map_caption      = The Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach as of 1791, superimposed over modern borders.
|capital                = [[Ansbach]]
|common_languages       = [[East Franconian German|East Franconian]]
|religion               = [[Roman Catholic]]
|footnotes              = <!--- Accepts wikilinks --->
}}
The '''Principality''' or '''Margraviate of (Brandenburg) Ansbach''' ({{langx|de|Fürstentum Ansbach}} or {{lang|de|Markgrafschaft Brandenburg-Ansbach}}) was a {{lang|de|[[reichsfrei|free imperial]]}} [[principality]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]] centered on the [[Franconia]]n city of [[Ansbach]]. The ruling [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollern]] princes of the land were known as [[margrave]]s, as their ancestors were margraves (so the principality was a margraviate but not a [[marches|march]]).