Corvey

Corvey was a Benedictine imperial abbey on the Weser beside Höxter in the Holy Roman Empire. In 1337 its prince-abbot was Dietrich von Dalwigk.

In 1349 Charles IV confirmed Dietrich's right to hold a Vehmic court. Corvey survived the Reformation as a self-ruling principality, but its church was sacked in the Thirty Years' War in 1634 and rebuilt after 1665. It became a prince-bishopric in 1792, then was secularised in 1803 and passed to Nassau-Orange-Fulda.