Duchy of Swabia
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Was one of the stem duchies of the medieval German Kingdom.
Establishment
February 962: Swabia was one of the Stem Duchies of the Holy Roman Empire.
Chronology
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The Frankish Kingdom was partitioned and reuinited several times as the Frankish rulers used to divide their territories equally among their heirs. This lead also to a number of wars and revolts.
1.1.Incoronation of Otto I
East Frankish King Otto I was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor.
January 973: Thea area of Schwyz is acquired by the Landgraviate of Lenzburg.
January 1001: The castle of Marstetten was probably built on the Schlossberg in the 11th century by a branch of the Margraves of Ursin-Ronsberg.
January 1001: The County of Pfirt with the main town of Pfirt (French: Ferrette) in Alsace was created in the 11th century from the lordship of Hohenpfirt Castle.
January 1005: Between 1002 and 1004 the Germanic sovereigns of Swabia ceded all the Bellinzona countryside to the bishop of Como.
January 1009: In 1007, the imperial county of Mortenau passed to the diocese of Bamberg.
January 1041: Originally a gau county of the Carolingian Empire, Klettgau passed to the Habsburg in 1040.
January 1041: The basic features of the Tarasp castle date back to around 1040.
January 1045: The Counts of Toggenburg have been documented since 1044.
January 1057: Weingarten Abbey existed from 1056.
January 1063: Princely Abbey of Kempten gains imperial immediacy.
January 1064: Part of the Duchy of Swabia fell under the advocacy of Lenzburg.
January 1066: The ancestral castle on the Lupfen, Hohenlupfen Castle, is documented for the first time in 1065.
January 1085: The Landgraviate of Stühlingen is mentoned for the first time in 1084.
January 1085: The Wolfach Lordship is mentoned for the first time as "Wolfacha" in 1084.
January 1086: In 1085, the Palatinate emerged from the County Palatine of Lotharingia.
January 1086: Eberstein County was mentioned for the first time in 1085.
January 1088: Kirchberg County is mentioned for the first time in 1087.
January 1090: Medieval Metzingen was first mentioned in a document in 1075 and half went to the Counts of Grüningen in 1089.
January 1091: A »Castrum Swangowe« was first mentioned in a document in 1090.
January 1091: Justingen Lordship is mentioned for the first time in 1090.
January 1096: In 1095, the castrum Haigerloch, a castle complex in the upper town of Haigerloch on the left bank of the Eyach, which was the seat of the counts of Haigerloch, is mentioned for the first time.
January 1097: In 1096, the Lords of Berge came into possession of Schalksburg. After its owners, the castle was then called the "House on the Mountain".
January 1097: In 1096 the construction of the Staufer building began by Gozpert de Halensteine, whose grandson Tegenhardus de Haelenstein, also Degenhard von Hellenstein, was a follower of the Staufer emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa.
January 1098: In 1097, the Duchy of Zahringen, consisting of the family's own property and various imperial fiefdoms, was founded as a replacement for the Swabian ducal title remaining with the Hohenstaufen.
January 1101: A descendant of the counts of Altshausen moved his residence to the central Laucherttal, where he built a residence (Burg Veringen) near the village of Veringen. From then on he called himself Count von Veringen.
January 1101: Bergell was a valley community with far-reaching freedom rights. The expansion of the country was already well advanced by 1100.
January 1101: Kyburg county came into being in the 11th century from the connection between Adelheid, the daughter of Adalbert, the last lord of Winterthur, and Hartmann I von Dillingen, who from then on called himself von Kyburg after his new ancestral seat.
January 1112: The Zollerns received the comital title from Emperor Henry V in 1111.
January 1113: Herman II, son of Herman I and grandson of Berthold II, had concluded an agreement with the rivalling Hohenstaufen dynasty, and about 1098 was enfeoffed with immediate territory by Emperor Henry IV. In Baden, Herman II had Hohenbaden Castle built. Construction began about 1100, and when completed in 1112, he marked the occasion by adopting the title of a Margrave of Baden.
January 1114: Foundation of Helfenstein.
January 1116: Ulm is declared a Free Imperial City.
January 1121: The Benedictine Engelberg Abbey, founded around 1120 by Freiherr Konrad von Sellenbüren, exercised political rule on the basis of a royal grant.
January 1121: The Lordship of Warthausen, based in Warthausen, was first mentioned with the Lords of Warthausen in 1120.
January 1128: The castle of Hochberg was probably founded in the 11th century by Dietrich von Emmendingen, who later called himself "von Hachberg". The first documented mention dates back to 1127.
January 1128: The original owners of the village and Schelklingen Castle were free lords of Schelklingen, probably related to the lords of Steußlingen. In 1127 three brothers, called von Schelklingen, gave goods to the Urspring monastery.
January 1131: Sigebert II became the first Count of Alsace in 1130 after the territory became the Landgraviate of Lower Alsace.
January 1136: The counts of Linzgau establish Heiligenberg County.
January 1136: The Barons of Vaz or Vatz were one of the most powerful noble families in the Alpine region in the High Middle Ages. They are documented from around 1135 to 1338.
January 1136: Establishment of the County of Württemberg.
January 1136: Establishment of a lordship in Marmorera (Graubünden, Switzerland) and construction of Marmels Castle.
January 1139: The "staufer territory", i.e.territories of the Staufen Dynasty, became Imperial Possessions when the Dynasty was elevated to Imperial rank.
January 1139: A "Reginhardus de Vlochperch" was mentioned in documents as early as 1138 and again in 1152.
Disestablishment
January 1140: Sax Lordship is mentioned for the first time in 1139.
