Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was a

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

and later a principality in southern

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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, located in the historical territory of

Heiligenberg Heiligenberg is a municipality and a village in the Bodensee district in Baden-Württemberg, about seven kilometres north of Salem, in Germany. Location and climate Heiligenberg (literally: the Holy Mountain or the Mountain of Saints) is loca ...

. It was created as a partition of

Fürstenberg-Baar Fürstenberg-Baar () was a County of medieval Germany, located in southern Baden-Württemberg in the territory of Baar. It was created as a partition of Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg in 1441. It inherited the County of Fürstenberg-Geisingen Fürst ...

in 1559, and it suffered one partition between itself and

Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen was a county of Fürstenberg that was created in 1617 as a partition of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg. It was named after Donaueschingen Donaueschingen (; Low Alemannic: ''Eschinge'') is a German town in the Black Fores ...

in 1617. When Herman Egon of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was elevated to the

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(''Reichsfürstenstand'') in 1664, Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was raised to a principality and existed as an

imperially immediate Imperial immediacy (german: Reichsfreiheit or ') was a privileged constitutional and political status rooted in German feudal law under which the Imperial estates of the Holy Roman Empire such as Imperial cities, prince-bishoprics and secular pri ...

territory. It inherited Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen in 1698, but following the extinction of its branch in 1716, it was inherited by

Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg was a territory in Swabia, which was located in present-day southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was ruled by the House of Fürstenberg in the Circle of Swabia during the Holy Roman Empire. History The territory cons ...

Counts of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1559–1664)

Joachim Joachim (; ''Yəhōyāqīm'', "he whom Yahweh has set up"; ; ) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Biblical apocryphal ...

, 1559–1598 * Frederick IV, 1598–1617 *William II, 1617–1618 * Egon VIII, 1618–1635Ersch, pp. 495–497 * Co-rulers: **Ernst Egon, 1635–1652 **Ferdinand Frederick Egon, 1635–1662 ** Herman Egon, 1635–1664

Princes of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1664–1716)

* Herman Egon, 1664–1674 * Anton Egon, 1674–1716 Herman Egon's two surviving brothers, Francis Egon and Wilhelm Egon, were also titular Princes of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, but they never ruled the principality.

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* Fürstenberg (princely family) Principalities of the Holy Roman Empire States and territories established in 1559 {{Germany-hist-stub de:Fürstenberg (schwäbisches Adelsgeschlecht)