Editing Principality of Bayreuth (section)

{{Short description|Immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire}}
{{Infobox country
|native_name            = {{native name|de|Fürstentum Bayreuth/Markgraftum Brandenburg-Kulmbach}}
|conventional_long_name = Principality of Bayreuth/<br>Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
|common_name            = Bayreuth
|era                    = [[Middle Ages]]
|status                 = [[Principality]]
|empire                 = Holy Roman Empire
|year_start             = 1398
|year_end               = 1791
|event_start            = Partitioned from [[Burgraviate of Nuremberg]]
|date_start             = &nbsp;<br>21 January
|event1                 = Reunited with [[Brandenburg-Ansbach|Ansbach]]
|date_event1            = 1420–40
|event2                 = Joined [[Franconian Circle]]
|date_event2            = 1500
|event3                 = Partitioned in twain
|date_event3            = 1655–1726
|event4                 = Line extinct; inherited by Ansbach
|date_event4            = &nbsp;<br>20 January 1769
|event_end              = Ansbach and Bayreuth sold to [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]]
|date_end               = &nbsp;<br>2 December
|p1                     = Burgraviate of Nuremberg
|flag_p1                = Burgraves of Nuremberg (Eigener Entwurf Version 2).svg
|s1                     = Kingdom of Prussia
|flag_s1                = Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1750-1801).svg
|image_coat             = Wappen Brandenburg Ansbach Kulmbach Bayreuth.jpg
| symbol                = House of Hohenzollern#Margraves of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1398–1604), later Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1604–1791)
| coa_size              = 120px
|image_map              = Principality of Bayreuth.png
|image_map_caption      = Principality of Brandenburg-Bayreuth as at 1791, when it was sold to [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]]
|capital                = [[Kulmbach]] until 1604,<br>[[Bayreuth]] from 1604
|leader1                = [[John III, Burgrave of Nuremberg]]
|year_leader1           = 1398–1420 (first)
|leader2                = [[Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|Christian Frederick,<br>Margrave of<br>Brandenburg-Ansbach]]
|year_leader2           = 1769–91 (last)
|title_leader           = Margrave
|footnotes              = <!--- Accepts wikilinks --->
}}
The '''Principality of Bayreuth''' ({{langx|de|Fürstentum Bayreuth}}) or '''Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth''' (''Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth'') was an [[Imperial immediacy|immediate]] territory of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], ruled by a [[Duchy of Franconia|Franconian]] branch of the [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollern]] dynasty. Since Burgrave [[Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg|Frederick VI of Nuremberg]] was enfeoffed with the [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]] in 1415/17, the Hohenzollern princes transferred the [[margrave|margravial]] title to their Franconian possessions, though the principality never had been a [[March (territorial entity)|march]]. Until 1604 they used [[Plassenburg]] Castle in [[Kulmbach]] as their residence, hence their territory was officially called the '''Principality of Kulmbach''' or '''Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach''' until the Empire's dissolution in 1806.