Nieder-Isenburg (often called Lower Isenburg) was a small mediaeval county in northern

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...

, Germany. It was located to the east of the town of

Neuwied Neuwied (, ) is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the Neuwied (district), District of Neuwied. Neuwied lies on the east bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt ...

, due north of

Vallendar Vallendar () is a town in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 4 km north-east of Koblenz. Vallendar is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipa ...

. Roughly speaking, territories of the Archbishops of

Trier Trier ( , ; ), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves ( , ) and Triers (see also Names of Trier in different languages, names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle (river), Moselle in Germany. It lies in a v ...

were located to the south, and territories of the Counts of Wied to the north. Nieder-Isenburg emerged in 1218 as a partition of the County of

Isenburg-Isenburg Isenburg-Isenburg was the name of a state of the Holy Roman Empire, based around Isenburg in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Bal ...

. Nieder-Isenburg was partitioned twice: between

Isenburg-Grenzau Isenburg-Grenzau was the name of several states of the Holy Roman Empire, seated in the Lordship of Grenzau, in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The first state called Isenburg-Grenzau existed 1158–1290; the second 1341–1439; and the third ...

Isenburg-Neumagen Isenburg-Neumagen was the name of a state of the Holy Roman Empire, seated in Neumagen-Dhron in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Isenburg-Neumagen was created on the partition of Lower Isenburg in 1502. There were only two counts of Isen ...

and itself in 1502, and between Isenburg-Grenzau and Isenburg-Neumagen in 1503. Following the death of Count Ernst of Isenburg in Brussels in 1664 without direct heir, the territories of Nieder-Isenburg were claimed back as a feudal tenure by the Archbishopric of Cologne, the Archbishopric of Trier and the core tenure of Isenburg and Grenzau by the Archbishopric of Fulda. The Fulda part was eventually passed on to the Counts of Walderdorff who had to share them with the Counts of Wied, at that stage a cadet branch of the Isenburgs, following a later agreement. Eventually the Walderdorff estates were distributed to the Nassovian state in the

Napoleonic Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of mi ...

era. The towns of Ransbach and Baumbach were part of Nieder-Isenburg until 1664, when they became part of

Kurtrier The Electorate of Trier ( or '; ) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the end of the 9th to the early 19th century. It was the temporal possession of the prince-archbishop of Trier (') who was, ''e ...

Counts of Nieder-Isenburg (1218–1664)

* Theodoric I (1218–53) * Theodoric II (1253–73) * Salentin I (1273–1300) * Salentin II (1300–34) ''with...'' * Salentin III (1319–70) * Salentin IV (1370–1420) * Salentin V (1420–58) * Gerlach I (1458–90) * Gerlach II (1488–1502) ''with...'' * James (1486–1503) * Heinrich, 5.1.1521/22-1553 * Johann Heinrich, +aft 15.11.1565; * Arnold, died 1577 * Anton, +Walhain 5.11.1548–1577 * Salentin VIII (1532–1610) * Salentin IX (1580–1619) ( 5.12.1619, Prague) * Ernst (1584–1664) ''reversion to Fulda, Cologne, and Trier.''

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