Isenburg-Büdingen was a County of southern
Hesse
Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...
,
Germany
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, located in
Büdingen
Büdingen () is a town in the Wetteraukreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is mainly known for its well-preserved, heavily fortified medieval town wall and half-timbered houses.
Geography
Location
Büdingen is in the south of the Wetterau below the Vog ...
. It was originally a part of the
County of Isenburg
The County of Isenburg was a region of Germany located in southern present-day Hesse, located in territories north and south of Frankfurt. The states of Isenburg emerged from the Niederlahngau (located in the Rhineland-Palatinate), which partitio ...
.
History

There were two different Counties of the same name. The first (1341–1511) was a partition of Isenburg-Cleberg, and was partitioned into
Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein and Isenburg-Ronneburg in 1511. The second (1628–1806) was a partition of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein. It was partitioned between itself,
Isenburg-Meerholz and
Isenburg-Wächtersbach in 1673, and was
mediatised to
Isenburg in 1806. In 1816 Isenburg was partitioned between the
Grand Duchy of Hesse
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine () was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The grand duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse (). It assumed the name ...
-Darmstadt and the
Electorate of Hesse
The Electorate of Hesse (), also known as Hesse-Kassel or Kurhessen, was the title used for the former Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel after an 1803 reform where the Holy Roman Emperor elevated its ruler to the rank of Elector, thus giving him ...
-Kassel.
Count Ernest Casimir (1801-1848) was elevated to the rank of prince by
Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, in 1840. Since then, the name of the branch is spelled ''Ysenburg and Büdingen'', to distinguish it from the princes of Isenburg from the
Isenburg-Birstein branch.
Counts of Isenburg-Büdingen
See also
*
Diether von Isenburg, son of Diether I
References
External links
Genealogy
Counties of the Holy Roman Empire
States and territories established in 1341
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