1218 in Politics - States and Territories Established in 1218, Solothurn, Schaffhausen, Zell Am Harmersbach, Frstenberg, Seckau Abbey (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: States and Territories Established in 1218, Solothurn, Schaffhausen, Zell Am Harmersbach, Frstenberg, Seckau Abbey, Nieder-Isenburg. Excerpt: item Grafschaft Frstenberg County of Frstenberg item Coat of arms item Frstenberg territories in 1806 item Capital: Frstenberg item Government: Principality item Historical era: Middle Ages Early modern time item - Count Egino IV of Urach inherited Zhringen: 1218 item - Partitioned into Frstenberg and Wolfach: 1408 The County of Frstenberg was a county of the Holy Roman Empire in Swabia, present-day southern Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany .History The County emerged when the Count Egino IV of Urach by marriage inherited large parts of the Duchy of Zhringen upon the death of Duke Berthold V in 1218, and was originally called the County of Freiburg . Egino's grandson Count Henry started naming himself after his residence at Frstenberg Castle around 1250.The County was partitioned in 1284 between itself and the lower County of Dillingen, and then again in 1408 between Frstenberg-Frstenberg and Frstenberg-Wolfach .Over the centuries, the various Counts and Princes expanded their territories to include the Landgraviate of Baar, the Lordships of Gundelfingen, Hausen, Heiligenberg, Hwen, and Messkirch, and the Landgraviate of Sthlingen in Germany; as well as domains around K ivoklt Castle (German: Prglitz ), Bohemia, Tavkovice (German: Taikowitz ) in Moravia and Weitra in Austria .In 1667, Frstenberg-Heiligenberg was raised to a principality and received a vote at the Reichstag . In 1744, various Frstenberg territories were reunified to the Principality of Frstenberg-Frstenberg, as all lines except one had become extinct.The Rheinbundakte of 1806 dissolved Frstenberg. Most of its territory was given to Baden ...