| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | EARL | |
| 1127 | Count - dinasty Tecklenburg | Ekberto | ||
| 1150 | Enrico I | |||
| 1155 | Simone | |||
| 1202 | Enrico II | |||
| 1226 | Ottone I | |||
| 1263 | dinasty Olanda | earl Ottone II earl of Bentheim | ||
| 1279 | Ottone III | |||
| 1285 | Ottone IV | |||
| 1307 | Ottone V | |||
| 1328 | dinasty Schwerin | Nicola I earl of Schwerin | ||
| 1367 | Ottone VI | |||
| 1388 | Nicola II | |||
| 1426 | Ottone VII | |||
| 1450 | Nicola III | |||
| 1508 | Ottone VIII | |||
| 1534 | Corrado | |||
| 1557 | Count of Count of Bentheim | |||
| 1623 | dinasty Bentheim | Maurizio | ||
| 1674 | John Adolfo | |||
| 1704 | Federico Maurizio | |||
| 1710 | Maurizio Casimiro | |||
| 1729 | Union to Markgraft of Brandenburg | |||
| 1918 | 9 november | Union to German State of Lower Saxony |