Königsegg-Rothenfels
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Königsegg-Rothenfels was a German state in far southwestern Bavaria
, Germany
, located north of Austria
and west of Baden-Württemberg
. It was created as a partition of the Barony of Königsegg
in 1622, and was raised to a County seven years later. It was absorbed by Austria in 1804, before being granted to Bavaria by France
during the Napoleonic Wars
.
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, located north of Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and west of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
. It was created as a partition of the Barony of Königsegg
Königsegg
Königsegg was a German statelet of southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Königsegg emerged in 1192 as a Lordship, and was raised to a Barony in 1470...
in 1622, and was raised to a County seven years later. It was absorbed by Austria in 1804, before being granted to Bavaria by France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
during the Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...
.
Counts of Königsegg-Rothenfels (1629–1804)
- Hugh (1629–66)
- Leopold William (1666–94)
- Sigmund William (1694–1709)
- Albert Eusebius (1709–36)
- Charles Ferdinand (1736–59)
- Francis Hugh (1759–71)
- Francis Fidelis Anthony (1771–1804)