sentences:  This branch became extinct three years later, in 1809.Since the Limburg Stirum held no imperial estate when the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806 (Gemen had been lost in 1800 and it is unclear if the Styrum branch did inherit the dynastic rights associated with Gemen), nor were any Limburg Stirum living in the German Confederation when the Congress of Vienna finalised the distinctions between the sovereign and non-sovereign dynasties of the former Empire (at that time all members were living in the newly created Kingdom of the Netherlands), the House of Limburg Stirum's centuries of previous status as immediate "Reichsgrafen" was not internationally recognised, nor was their head granted the style of "Erlaucht" (Illustrious Highness) and they were omitted from Section II of the "Almanach de Gotha", which listed therein the other princely and countly families of mediatised dynastic rank.The house of Limburg Stirum is nevertheless considered part of the "Standesherren" by most authors on the subject.