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Name: Waldenburg County

Type: Polity

Start: 1176 AD

End: 1473 AD

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment


  • January 1176: The origin of the Waldenburg lordship dates back to the 12th century. In the course of the expansion of the state and the German settlement in the east, the noble-free lords of Wartha, who had their ancestral seat in Warta in the diocese of Naumburg, left the area on the Unstrut on behalf of Emperor Friedrich I (called Barbarossa) and founded between 1165 and 1175 south-east of Altenburg a new reign.
  • Chronology


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    1. Mongol invasions and conquests


    Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

    1.1.Mongol Invasions of Germany

    Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.

    1.1.1.First Mongol Invasion of Germany

    Was a Mongol raid in the Holy Roman Empire.

  • May 1241: The Mongols invaded the Holy Roman Empire without major clash of arms.The army invaded eastern Germany, and crossed the March of Moravia in April-May 1241.
  • June 1241: The Mongols left eastern Germany and Moravia.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1379: From 1378 Selva was the main seat of the Waldenburg family.

  • January 1379: The dominion of Waldenburg passed to the House of Schönburg.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1474: After the death of the last Waldenburg resident, the property fell to the sovereigns, the Wettin family, as a settled fief in 1473.
  • Selected Sources


  • Strakosh-Grassmann, G. (1893): Der Einfall der Mongolen in Mitteleuropa in den Jahren 1241 und 1242, Innsbruck (Austria), pp. 53-67
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