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County (Principality) of Hohenlohe Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Hohenlohe | |||||||||
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| 1450–1806 | |||||||||
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 Hohenlohe state, Homann, 1748 | |||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Öhringen | ||||||||
| Religion | Catholic Lutheran | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1450 | ||||||||
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| 21 May 1744 | |||||||||
| 12 July 1806 | |||||||||
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The House of Hohenlohe (pronounced [hoːənˈloːə]) is a German princely dynasty. It formerly ruled an immediate territory within the Holy Roman Empire, which was divided between several branches. In 1806, the area of Hohenlohe was 1,760 km² and its estimated population was 108,000.[1] The motto of the house is Ex flammis orior (Latin for 'From flames I rise'). The Lords of Hohenlohe were elevated to the rank of Imperial Counts in 1450, and from 1744, the territory and its rulers were princely. In 1825, the German Confederation recognized the right of all members of the house to be styled as Serene Highness (German: Durchlaucht), with the title of Fürst for the heads of its branches, and the title of prince/princess for the other members.[2] From 1861, the Hohenlohe-Öhringen branch was also of ducal status as dukes of Ujest.
Due to the continuous lineage of the dynasty until the present time, it is considered to be one of the longest-lived noble families in Germany and Europe. The large state coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg today bears the Frankish rake of the former Duchy of East and West Franconia, which also included the Franconian region of Baden-Württemberg around Heilbronn-Hohenlohe. The dynasty is related to the Staufers around the famous Emperor Barbarossa, and also to the British royal family through Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria's half-sister Princess Feodora of Leiningen.
History
The first ancestor was mentioned in 1153 as Conrad, Lord of Weikersheim, where the family had the Geleitrecht (right of escorting travellers and goods and charging customs) along the Tauber river on the trading route between Frankfurt and Augsburg until the 14th century. It is likely that Conrad was a son of Conrad von Pfitzingen, who was already mentioned in documents in 1136/1141 and owned a castle of that name near Weikersheim. Allegedly, according to some, however unconfirmed sources, the wife of Conrad von Pfitzingen named Sophie was an illegitimate daughter of Conrad III Hohenstaufen, King of Germany, with a noble lady named Gerberga.[3] The Hohenlohe family therefore later boasted of a kinship with the Imperial House of Hohenstaufen.
Heinrich von Weikersheim is mentioned in documents from 1156 to 1182 and Adelbert von Weikersheim around 1172 to 1182. The latter used Hohenlohe (“Albertus de Hohenloch”) as his name for the first time in 1178 which is derived from the no longer existing Hohlach Castle near Simmershofen in Middle Franconia. His brother Heinrich also called himself so from 1182 (in the versions “Hohenlach” or “Holach”) which later was to become Hohenlohe. The name means “high-lying wood” (high Loh). The name Hohenlohe was probably adopted because Weikersheim was a fiefdom of the Comburg monastery, but Hohlach was an imperial fiefdom that granted its owners the status of imperial knight. Hohlach Castle secured the Rothenburg−Ochsenfurt road. However, Hohlach soon lost its importance; the family's holdings were expanded from Weikersheim, which is located about 20 km further west, southwards to form the county of Hohenlohe. Haltenbergstetten Castle near Pfitzingen, south of Weikersheim, was built around 1200, as was Brauneck Castle halfway between Weikersheim and Hohlach.
The dynasty's influence was soon perceptible between the Franconian valleys of the Kocher, Jagst and Tauber rivers, an area that was to be called the Hohenlohe Plateau.[4] Their original main seats were Weikersheim, Hohlach and Brauneck (near Creglingen).
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Of Konrad von Weikersheim's three sons, Konrad and Albrecht died childless. Heinrich I von Hohenlohe, the third son, died around 1183; he had five sons, of whom Andreas, Heinrich and Friedrich entered the Teutonic Order and thus the clergy, as a result of which the House of Hohenlohe lost important possessions around Mergentheim to the order. Like Hohlach Castle, these had probably fallen to the Lords of Weikersheim through marriage. In 1219 Mergentheim became the seat of the Mergentheim Commandery. Mergentheim Palace became the residence of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in 1527 and remained the headquarters of the Order until 1809.
The son Heinrich von Hohenlohe (d. 1249) became Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. His grandsons, Gottfried and Conrad, supporters of Emperor Frederick II, founded the lines of Hohenlohe-Hohenlohe and Hohenlohe-Brauneck in 1230, the names taken from their respective castles.[5] The emperor granted them the Italian counties of Molise and Romagna in 1229/30, but they were not able to hold them for long. Gottfried was a tutor and close advisor to the emperor's son king Conrad IV. When the latter survived an assassination attempt plotted by bishop Albert of Regensburg, he granted Gottfried some possessions of the Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg, namely the Vogt position for the Augustine Stift at Öhringen and the towns of Neuenstein and Waldenburg. Gottfried's son Kraft I acquired the town of Ingelfingen with Lichteneck Castle. In 1253 the town and castle of Langenburg were inherited by the lords of Hohenlohe, after the lords of Langenburg had become extinct. During the Interregnum the Hohenlohe sided with the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg and defeated the count of Henneberg and his coalition at the Battle of Kitzingen gaining Uffenheim in the aftermath. In 1273 Kraft of Hohenlohe fought at the Battle on the Marchfeld on the side of king Rudolf of Habsburg. By 1300, town and castle Schillingsfürst had also passed into the possession of the Hohenlohe lords.
Hohlach later became part of the Principality of Ansbach, a subsequent state of the Hohenzollern Burgraviate of Nuremberg, to which the Hohenlohe family had sold the nearby town of Uffenheim in 1378,[6] and Hohlach some time later. Yet, the name Hohenlohe remained attached to the county with its other territories.
The branch of Hohenlohe-Brauneck received Jagstberg Castle (near Mulfingen) as af fief from the Bishop of Würzburg around 1300, which later came to various other feudal holders, but repeatedly also back to the House of Hohenlohe. The Lords of Hohenlohe-Brauneck became extinct in 1390, their lands were sold to the Hohenzollern margraves of Ansbach in 1448. Hohenlohe-Hohenlohe was divided into several branches, two of which were Hohenlohe-Weikersheim and Hohenlohe-Uffenheim-Speckfeld (1330–1412). Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, descended from count Kraft I (died 1313), also underwent several divisions, the most important following the deaths of counts Albert and George in 1551. At this time the two main branches of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein and Hohenlohe-Waldenburg were founded by George's sons. Meanwhile, in 1412, the branch of Hohenlohe-Uffenheim-Speckfeld had become extinct, and its lands passed to other families by marriage.[5] George Hohenlohe was prince-bishop of Passau (1390–1423) and archbishop of Esztergom (1418–1423), serving King Sigismund of Hungary (the later King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor).
In 1450, Emperor Frederick III granted Kraft of Hohenlohe (died 1472) and his brother, Albrecht, the sons of Elizabeth of Hanau, heiress of Ziegenhain, the title Count of Ziegenhain (Graf zu Ziegenhain) and invested them with the County of Ziegenhain.[7] Actually, the Landgraves of Hesse soon took the County of Ziegenhain. After decades of, sometimes armed, conflict, the Hohenlohe gave up their claim to Ziegenhain in favor of the Hessian landgrave in a settlement with financial compensation in 1495. In this context, the emperor elevated their lordship Hohenlohe to the status of an imperial county. The county remained divided between several family branches, however still being an undivided Imperial Fief under the imperial jurisdiction, and was to be represented by the family's senior vis-à-vis the imperial court.
The Hohenlohes were Imperial Counts having two voices in the Diet (or Assembly, called Kreistag) of the Franconian Circle.[8] They also had six voices in the Franconian College of Imperial Counts (Fränkisches Reichsgrafenkollegium) of the Imperial Diet (Reichstag).[9] The right to vote in the Imperial Diet gave a German noble family the status of imperial state (Reichsstände) and made them belong to the High Nobility (Hoher Adel), on a par with ruling princes and dukes.
By 1455, Albrecht of Hohenlohe had acquired the castle and lordship of Bartenstein (near Schrozberg). In 1472 the town and castle of Pfedelbach were bought by the Hohenlohe family. In 1586, Weikersheim was inherited by count Wolfgang who reconstructed the medieval Weikersheim Castle into a Renaissance palace. When the last Weikersheim count, Carl Ludwig, died around 1760, his lands were divided between the Langenburg, Neuenstein and Öhringen branches; in 1967, Prince Constantin of Hohenlohe-Langenburg sold Weikersheim Castle, meanwhile a museum, to the state.
The existing branches of the Hohenlohe family are descended from the lines of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein and Hohenlohe-Waldenburg, established in 1551 by Ludwig Kasimir (d. 1568) and Eberhard (d. 1570), the sons of Count Georg I (d. 1551).[10] Since Georg had become protestant on his deathbed, the reformation was introduced in the county and confirmed by the Peace of Augsburg in 1556. In 1667 however, a confessional division arose when the two sons of Georg Friedrich II of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Christian (founder of the Bartenstein line) and Ludwig Gustav (founder of the Schillingsfürst line), converted to the Catholic Church. After the extinction of two other protestant side lines, Waldenburg in 1679 and Waldenburg-Pfedelbach in 1728, the whole property of the main branch Hohenlohe-Waldenburg was inherited by the catholic counts.
Of the Lutheran branch of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, which underwent several partitions and inherited the county of Gleichen in Thuringia (with its residence at Ehrenstein Castle in Ohrdruf) in 1631, the senior line became extinct in 1805, while in 1701 the junior line divided itself into three branches, those of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and Hohenlohe-Kirchberg.[5] The branch of Kirchberg died out in 1861, with its lands and castle passing to the Öhringen-Neuenstein branch (Kirchberg Castle was sold in 1952), but the branches of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (residing at Langenburg Castle) and Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen still exist, the latter being divided into Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen-Öhringen (which became extinct in 1960) and Hohenlohe-Oehringen (today residing at Neuenstein Castle). The two actual heads of the branches of Langenburg and Oehringen are traditionally styled Fürst. The two princes of Hohenlohe-Oehringen-Neuenstein and of Hohenlohe-Langenburg entertained a government office for the county of Gleichen at Ehrenstein Castle until 1848.
Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, had acquired the estates of Slawentzitz, Ujest and Bitschin in Silesia by marriage in 1782, an area of 108 square miles, where his grandson Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest, established calamine mines and founded one of the largest zinc smelting plants in the world. His son, prince Christian Kraft (1848–1926), sold the plants and went almost bankrupt with a fund in which he had invested in 1913; the mines he had still kept were depropriated by communist Poland in 1945. Until then, this branch had its headquarters in Slawentzitz and also owned estates in Hungary. After their expulsion and expropriation, the branch returned to Neuenstein.
The Catholic branch of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg was soon divided into three side branches, but two of these had died out by 1729. The surviving branch, that of Schillingsfürst, was divided into the lines of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, with further divisions following.[5] The four catholic lines which still exist today (with their heads styled Fürst) are those of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (at Schillingsfürst), Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (at Waldenburg), Hohenlohe-Jagstberg (at Haltenbergstetten) and Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (at Bartenstein). A side branch of the House of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst inherited the dukedom of Ratibor in Silesia in 1834, together with the principality of Corvey in Westphalia. While the Silesian property was expropriated in Poland in 1945, Corvey Abbey remains owned by the Duke of Ratibor to this day, together with further inherited properties in Austria.
The Holy Roman Emperors granted the title of Imperial Prince (Reichsfürst) to the Waldenburg line (in 1744) and to the Neuenstein (Öhringen) line (in 1764).[11] In 1757, the Holy Roman Emperor elevated possessions of the Waldenburg line to the status of Imperial Principality.[12] In 1772, the Holy Roman Emperor elevated possessions of the Neuenstein and Langenburg lines to the status of Imperial Principality.[12]
On 12 July 1806, the principalities became parts of the kingdoms of Bavaria and of Württemberg by the Act of the Confederation of the Rhine. Therefore, the region of Hohenlohe is presently located for the most part in the north eastern part of the State of Baden-Württemberg (forming the counties of Hohenlohe, Schwäbisch Hall and the southern part of Main-Tauber-Kreis), with smaller parts in the Bavarian administrative districts of Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. The Hohenlohisch dialect is part of the East Franconian German dialect group and the population still values its traditional distinct identity.
Rulers
House of Hohenlohe
Partitions of Hohenlohe under House of Hohenlohe rule
| Lordship of Hohenlohe (1192-1209) | |||||||||
| Lordship of Brauneck (1209-1390) |
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| Lordship of Weikersheim (1209-1450) Raised to: County of Weikersheim (1st creation) (1450–1551) |
Lordship of Uffenheim (1255-1412) | ||||||||
| Lordship of Haltenbergstetten (1268-1368) |
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| County of Schillingfurst (1st creation) (1472–1545) |
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| County of Waldenburg (1551-1679) |
County of Langenburg (1st creation) (1568–1590) |
County of Weikersheim (2nd creation) (1568–1684) |
County of Neuenstein (1st creation) (1503–1606) | ||||||
| County of Langenburg (2nd creation) (1610–1764) Raised to: Principality of Langenburg (1764–1806) |
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| County of Neuenstein (3rd creation) (1610–1698) | |||||||||
| County of Pfedelbach (1600-1728) |
County of Schillingfurst (2nd creation) (1600–1744) Raised to: Principality of Schillingfurst (1744–1806) | ||||||||
| County of Kirchberg (1699-1764) Raised to: Principality of Kirchberg (1764–1806) |
County of Ohringen (1641-1805) | ||||||||
| County of Bartenstein (1635-1806) |
County of Ingelfingen (1699-1764) Raised to: Principality of Ingelfingen (1764–1806) | ||||||||
| (mediatized to Württemberg in 1806) | |||||||||
Table of rulers
| Ruler | Born | Reign | Death | Ruling part | Consort | Notes | |
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| Henry | 1144 | 1192-1212 | 1212 | Lordship of Hohenlohe | Adelaide of Langenberg/ of Gundelfingen[13] (d.1230) six children |
First confirmed member of the family who held the lordship. | |
| Godfrey I | |
1190 | 1212-1255 | 1255 | Lordship of Weikersheim | Richeza of Bocksberg[14] six children |
Children of Henry, divided the land. Conrad was also count at Molise and Romagna. |
| Conrad I | c.1195 | 1212-1250 | c.1250 | Lordship of Brauneck | Petrissa of Büdingen[15] five children | ||
| Godfrey I | 1232 | 1250-1306 | 1312 | Lordship of Brauneck | Willibirg (d.1272/78) c.1265 six children Elisabeth of Falkenstein c.1279 six children |
Children of Conrad I, divided the land. It's possible that a Godfrey that supposedly died in 1273 is this one who died in 1312. Godfrey abdicated in 1306. | |
| Henry | c.1235 | 1250-1267 | 4 October 1267 | Lordship of Haltenbergstetten | Unknown three children | ||
| Crato I |  |
1242 | 1255-1313 | 19 September 1313 | Lordship of Weikersheim | Willibirg of Wertheim (d.8 January 1279) three children Margaret of Truendingen (d.11 November 1294) 1280 six children Agnes of Württemberg (d.27 September 1305) 1295 two children |
Children of Godfrey I, divided the land. |
| Albert I | c.1240 | 1255-1269 | 1269 | Lordship of Uffenheim | Kunigunde of Henneberg (1223–1257) 1240 two children Udelhild of Berg-Schelklingen 1257 (d.1271) two children | ||
| Gebhard | c.1250? | 1267-1300 | 3 November 1300 | Lordship of Haltenbergstetten | Adelaide of Taufers (d.1300) six children |
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| Godfrey II | c.1250 | 1269-1290 | 1290 | Lordship of Uffenheim | Elisabeth of Nuremberg (d.13 February 1288) c.1280 six children |
Children of Albert I, divided the land, but it was mostly and rapidly united again: Schelklingen reunited with Uffenheim after Albert's death; Wernsberg joined in the next generation. | |
| Frederick | c.1260 | 1269-1290 | 1290 | Lordship of Uffenheim (at Wernsberg) |
Sophia of Henneberg (d.1313) four children | ||
| Albert (II) | .jpg) |
c.1260 | 1269-1338 | 16 April 1338 | Lordship of Uffenheim (at Schelklingen) |
Unknown two children Hedwig of Castell 1309 (d.1331) no children | |
| Albert II | c.1270 | 1290-1312 | 30 November 1312 | Lordship of Uffenheim | Adelaide of Berg-Schelklingen (d.18 September 1338) 7 November 1289 seven children |
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| Henry | c.1280 | 1290-1329 | 25 October 1329 | Lordship of Uffenheim (at Wernsberg) |
Elisabeth of Henneberg (d.29 November 1329) 1300 no children |
After his death Wernsberg reunited with Uffenheim. | |
| Ulrich I | c.1270? | 1300-1332 | 1332 | Lordship of Haltenbergstetten | Matilda of Weinsberg (c.1300?-1332) 3 April 1284 eight children |
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| Godfrey II | c.1270? | 1306-1354 | 1354 | Lordship of Brauneck | Margaret (d.c.1335)[16] two children |
Teutonic Knight, eventually succeeded in the lordship. | |
| Louis | c.1290 | 1312-1356 | 1356 | Lordship of Uffenheim | Elisabeth of Nassau (c.1310-18 April 1359) 1326 eight children |
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| Crato II | c.1270 | 1313-1344 | 8 May 1344 | Lordship of Weikersheim | Adelaide Matilda of Württemberg (1295/1300-13 September 1342) 1306 two children |
Children of Crato I, ruled jointly. | |
| Conrad | c.1270 | 1313-1330 | 1330 | Lordship of Weikersheim | Unknown two children | ||
| Ulrich II | c.1300? | 1332-1347 | 1347 | Lordship of Haltenbergstetten | Unknown six children Adelaide of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (1305–1340) 1 June 1337 no children |
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| Crato III | 1328 | 1344-1371 | 16 November 1371 | Lordship of Weikersheim | Anna of Leuchtenberg (d.11 June 1390) c.1340 nine children |
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| Ulrich III | c.1320/30? | 1347-1367 | 17 February 1367 | Lordship of Haltenbergstetten | Elisabeth of Merenberg (d.1375) 1345 one child |
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| Godfrey III | 1290 | 1354-1368 | 1368 | Lordship of Brauneck | Agnes of Castell[17] (d.14 September 1395) five children |
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| Godfrey III | 1344 | 1356-1387 | 1387 | Lordship of Uffenheim | Anna of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 27 Jul 1385/1388) 1369 three children |
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| Ulrich IV | c.1350? | 1367-1381 | 19 April 1381 | Lordship of Haltenbergstetten | Unmarried | Left no descendants. After his death Haltenbergstetten returned to Brauneck domain. | |
| Haltenbergstetten reannexed in Brauneck | |||||||
| Conrad II | c.1320/30? | 1368-1390 | 7 August 1390 | Lordship of Brauneck | Anna of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (1371-1 June 1434) 15 March 1388 one child |
Left no male descendants. After his death Brauneck was annexed to Weikersheim. | |
| Brauneck annexed to Weikersheim | |||||||
| Crato IV |  |
c.1350 | 1371-1399 | 24 November 1399 | Lordship of Weikersheim | Agnes of Ziegenhain (d.23 March 1374) c.1365/70 no children Elisabeth of Sponheim (d.1381) 1374 two children |
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| John |  |
1370 | 1387-1412 | 24 October 1412 | Lordship of Uffenheim | Unmarried | Left no descendants. After his death Uffenheim re-merged in Weikersheim. |
| Uffenheim re-merged in Weikersheim | |||||||
| Ulrich | c.1360 | 1399-1407 | 6 December 1407 | Lordship of Weikersheim | Unmarried | Brother and daughter of Crato IV, they shared rule in the lordship; Anna possessed land inherited from her father, which eventually passed to the House of Nassau by marriage. | |
| Anna | c.1370 | 1399-1410 | 11 October 1410 | Lordship of Weikersheim (at Kirchheimbolanden and Stauf) |
Philipp I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg 1385 one child | ||
| Albert I |  |
c.1365? | 1407-1429 | 16 June 1429 | Lordship of Weikersheim | Elisabeth of Hanau 1413 seven children |
Brother of Crato IV and Ulrich. |
| Regency of Elisabeth of Hanau (1429–1431) | Children of Albert I, divided the land. After Albert's death, Neuenstein as reabsorbed by Waldenburg. | ||||||
| Crato V | c.1410 | 1429-1472 | 21/31 March 1472 | Lordship of Weikersheim (until 1450, at Waldenburg) County of Weikersheim (from 1450, at Waldenburg) |
Margaret of Oettingen (1430-24 February 1472) 1431 seven children | ||
| Albert II |  |
c.1410 | 1429-1490 | 1490 | Lordship of Weikersheim (until 1450, at Neuenstein) County of Weikersheim (from 1450, at Neuenstein) |
Unmarried | |
| Crato VI |  |
1452 | 1472-1503 | 2 August 1503 | County of Weikersheim (at Waldenburg) |
Helena of Württemberg (1453-19 February 1506) 26 February 1476 Waldenburg seventeen children |
Children of Crato V, divided the land. |
| Godfrey IV | c.1455 | 1472-1497 | 4 October 1497 | County of Schillingsfürst | Hippolyta of Wilhelmsdorf 1478 six children | ||
| John | c.1470 | 1497-1509 | 1509 | County of Schillingsfürst | Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg (d.4 May 1516) 14 November 1491 four children |
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| George I | 17 January 1488 | 1503-1551 | 16 March 1551 | County of Weikersheim (at Waldenburg) |
Praxedis of Sulz (1495-14 April 1521) 1514 six children Helena of Waldburg-Zeil (12 October 1514 – 3 April 1567) 1529 eight children |
Children of Crato VI, divided the land. George changed his seat from Weikersheim to Waldenburg. | |
| Albert III | c.1485 | 1503-1551 | 19 August 1551 | County of Neuenstein | Wandelberta of Hohenzollern (1484–1553) 15 March 1507 Rothenburg no children | ||
| Wolfgang I | c.1490 | 1509-1545 | 24 December 1545 | County of Schillingsfürst | Walpurga of Henneberg-Schleusingen (31 October 1516 - 16 Apr 1570) 18/19 November 1534 Schleusingen no children |
Left no descendants. Schillingsfürst reverted to Weikersheim. | |
| Schillingsfürst re-merged in Weikersheim | |||||||
| Eberhard |  |
11 October 1535 | 1551-1570 | 10 March 1570 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Hohenlohe-Weikersheim|||