Pappenheim was a German county in western

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

, Germany, located on the

Altmühl The Altmühl (, )
s.v. is a river in

river between

Treuchtlingen Treuchtlingen () is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It has a population of around 12,000. History The spot where the town is situated was first settled by Celts, Roman Empire, Romans and Franks. The town prope ...

and

Solnhofen Solnhofen is a municipality in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in the region of Middle Franconia in the ' of Bavaria in Germany. It is in the Altmühl valley. The local area is famous in geology and palaeontology for Solnhofen lime ...

, and south of Weißenburg. As former

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family,

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to Bavaria in 1806, the family which ruled the state belongs to

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History

Pappenheim originated as a Lordship around 1030, and was raised to a county in 1628. The first member of the House of Pappenheim was ''Henricus Caput'', mentioned in 1111 as

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Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor Henry V (; probably 11 August 1081 or 1086 – 23 May 1125) was King of Germany (from 1099 to 1125) and Holy Roman Emperor (from 1111 to 1125), as the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty. He was made co-ruler by his father, Henry IV, i ...

. From about 1100 until 1806 the Lords and Counts of Pappenheim held the position of hereditary marshals of the Holy Roman Empire, a court office that made them deputies of the Empire's arch marshals, the

Electors of Saxony The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony ( or ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356 to 1806 initially centred on Wittenberg that came to include areas around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. It was a ...

, with certain ceremonial tasks at the

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. Being immediate to the Emperor, Pappenheim was a member of the Swabian bench of Imperial Counts with one collective vote in the Imperial Diet. Pappenheim was partitioned twice: between itself,

Alesheim Alesheim is a municipality in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and ...

(Aletzheim),

Gräfenthal Gräfenthal () is a town in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, Germany. Geography Gräfenthal is located in the southern Thuringian Highland. Mountains in this region rise up to 800 meters above sea level and are usually wooded w ...

and

in 1439; and between itself and

Stühlingen Stühlingen (; High Alemannic German, High Alemannic: ''Stüelinge'') is a town in the Waldshut (district), Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the border with Switzerland, with a border crossing to the village of Ob ...

in 1558. Pappenheim absorbed Alesheim in 1697, Gräfenthal in 1536, and Treuchtlingen in 1647. Treuchtlingen was purchased in 1447/53 and, after the Treuchtlingen branch went extinct in 1647, became part of the

Principality of Ansbach The Principality or Margraviate of (Brandenburg) Ansbach ( or ) was a principality in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Franconian city of Ansbach. The ruling Hohenzollern princes of the land were known as margraves, as their ancestors were ...

. Stühlingen, acquired in 1582, was inherited by

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in 1639. Pappenheim was mediatised by

in 1806. In 1815, the

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recognized that Pappenheim should receive compensation for their loss of the hereditary office of Imperial marshal. The former Saar department of the

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was divided five ways, with one of the portions granted to Pappenheim as sovereign territory. Shortly thereafter, the family exchanged title to their land to

Prussia Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...

for a monetary payment.Treitschke, Heinrich. The History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, Eng. Trans. 1915. Vol. 3, Page 121. Pappenheim was formally recognized by Bavaria as a mediatized house in 1831, after all claims were settled. The arms of House of Pappenheim are ''Vair plain''. The head of the family has Quarterly 1&4 Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (''parti per fess Sable and Argent, two swords in saltire Gules''), 2&3 Pappenheim (''Vair plain'').

Heads of state

Lords of Pappenheim (c. 1030–1628)

* Henry I (c. 1030–?) * Henry II * Henry III * Ernest (?–1170) * Henry I (1170–93) * Rudolph I (1193–1221) * Frederick (1221–40) ''with...'' ** Rudolph II (1221–33) * Henry III (1240–78) * Henry IV (1278–1318) * Rudolph I (1313–35) * Rudolph II (1335–45) *

Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026) * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125) * Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161) * Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (–1227) * Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281 ...

(1345–87) * Haupt I (1387–1409) * Haupt II (1409–39) ''with...'' ** Sigismund (1409–36) * Henry VI (1439–82) * William (1482–1508) * Joachim (1508–36) * Wolfgang I (1536–58) * Christopher (1558–69) ''with...'' ** Philip (1558–19) ''and...'' ** Wolfgang II (1558–85) ''and...'' * Wolfgang Christopher (1585–1628)

Counts of Pappenheim (1628–1806)

* Wolfgang Christopher (1628–35) * Wolfgang Philip (Count of Aletzheim) (1628–71) * Charles Philip Gustav (1671–92) * Louis Francis (1692–97) * Christian Ernest (Count of Aletzheim) (1697–1721) ''with...'' ** John Frederick (Count of Aletzheim) (1697–1731) ''and...'' ** Frederick Ernest (1721–25) ''and...'' ** Albert Louis Frederick (1725–33) * Frederick Ferdinand (1733–73) * John Frederick Ferdinand (1773–92) * Charles Theodore Frederick Eugene Francis (1792–1806) ** ''Frederick William (regent) (1792–97)''

After German Mediatization

* Karl Theodor/Charles Theodore (1771–1853), Count 1792-1853 ∞ Countess Lucie von Hardenberg-Reventlow (1776–1854) * Albert (1777–1860), Count 1853-1860 ∞ Baroness Maria Antoinetta Tänzl von Tratzberg (1793–1861) ** Ludwig (1815–1883), Count 1860-1883 ''(Lutheran branch)'' ∞ Countess Anastasia von Schlieffen (1827–1898) *** Maximilian (1860–1920), Count 1883-1890/91, renounced his rights 1890/91 ∞ Mary Wistar Wheeler (b. 1872) *** Ludwig (1862–1905), Count 1890/91-1905 ∞ Countess Julie von

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(1868–1950) **** Ludwig (1898–1960), Count 1905–1960, owner of the Pappenheim estate ∞ Baroness Liutta von Ribeaupierre (1900–1959) ***** ''Countess Ursula'' (1927–2018), heiress of Pappenheim estate ∞ Count Gert von der Recke von Volmerstein (1921–1991) ****** Countess Iniga von der Recke-Volmerstein (b. 1952) ∞ Count Albrecht von und zu

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(b. 1946) ******* Countess Isabelle von und zu Egloffstein (b. 1975) ∞

Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen (; ; born 12 June 1952), also known by his Orthodox Russian name Nikolai Kirillovich Romanov (Николай Кириллович Романов), and recognized with the regnal name Emperor Nicholas III by Monar ...

******* Countess Julie von und zu Egloffstein (b. 1975) ∞ Count Thibaud de Rohan-Chabot ******* Countess Désirée von und zu Egloffstein (b. 1977) ******* Count Johannes Georg Albrecht von und zu Egloffstein (b. 1994) ** ''Count Alexander (1819-1890)'', owner of Iszkaszentgyörgy Palace in Hungary ''(Roman catholic branch)'' ∞ Baroness Valerie Bajzáth de Pészak (1827–1922) *** ''Count Siegfried (1868-1936)'' ∞ Countess Elisabeth Károlyi de Nagy-Károly (1872–1954) **** Alexander (1905–1995), Count 1960-1995 ∞ (div. 1957) Maria Zeyk de Zeykfalva (1912–1974), ∞ Princess Eduarda von und zu

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(1913–2001) ***** Albert (born 1943), Count 1995–present **** ''Count Georg (1909-1986)'' ∞ Mechtild-Karin von

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(1913–2008) ***** Hereditary Count Alexander (b.1948) ∞ Countess Marie-Christine von Hartig (b. 1950) ****** Count Georg (b.1981)

Gallery

Burg von Pappenheim.JPG,

Pappenheim Pappenheim is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl, south of Weißenburg in Bayern. History Historically, Pappenheim was a statelet within the Holy Roman Empire. It was ...

, the Old Castle of 1140 Altes Schloss Pappenheim.jpg, Pappenheim, the castle of 1593 New castle.jpg, Pappenheim, the New Palace of 1819 File:Iszkaszentgyörgy - Palace.jpg, Iszkaszentgyörgy Palace, Hungary

References

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