Stavelot-Malmedy

Stavelot-Malmedy was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled from its Benedictine monasteries at Stavelot and Malmedy. In 1337 Prince-Abbot Winrich de Pomerio ruled under the protection of the counts of Luxembourg.

Neutrality did not spare the principality: in 1689 Louis XIV's general Catinat burned both towns. French revolutionary armies extinguished it in 1793–1795, incorporating its lands into the département of Ourthe. The Congress of Vienna divided the territory between the Netherlands and Prussia in 1815.