Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
Grafschaft Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
State of the Holy Roman Empire
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 1607–1806 →

Coat of arms
Capital Berleburg
Government Principality
Historical era Middle Ages
 - Partitioned from
    Sayn-Wittgenstein		  
1607 1607
 - Partitioned to create
    S-W-Homburg and
    S-W-Neumagen

1631
 - Raised to Principality 1792
 - Mediatised to Hesse 1806
 - Annexed by Prussia 1816

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was a county (Grafschaft), most of which is located in the present district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany (in the modern state of North Rhine-Westphalia). Its seat was the town and palace in Berleburg (now Bad Berleburg). Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was a partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein in the 16th century; the southern and more-developed portion was the County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein with its seat Laaspe (now Bad Laasphe). Wittgenstein-Berleburg was raised from a County to a Principality in 1792, and was mediatised to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806 before being annexed to Prussia in 1816. Members of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg have married into numerous European royal houses.

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Counts and reigning princes

Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1607–1792)[1]

Reigning Princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1792–1806)[2]

Line of succession

  1. Gustav, Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
  2. Bernhard, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein
  3. Wenzel, Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

External links and references

  1. ^ Johannes Burkardt & Ulf Lückel, Das Fürstliche Haus zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. 2005, Börde-Verlag Werl.
  2. ^ Burkardt & Lückel