Zähringen Duchy

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Was a dynasty of Swabian nobility that controlled a scattered territory in Switzerland and southwestern Germany.

Establishment

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.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1101: In the 12th century, the Zähringers gained a significant position of power in what is now south-west Germany and what is now Switzerland, without actually being able to form a coherent or well-founded duchy in the sense of a unified dominion.

January 1153: The Teck Duchy is partitioned from Zähringen.

January 1174: Zurich under advocacy of Zähringen.

January 1181: The Zähringers acquire new possessions in Solothurn.

January 1201: Since the bishops of Bamberg could not personally exercise their rights in the county of Ortenau, which was far from Bamberg, they awarded the county to the dukes of Zähringen.

January 1218: Expansion of the Zähringen Domains in Baden-Württembeg.

Disestablishment

January 1219: Zürich is declared a Free Imperial City.

January 1219: When the Zähringer family died out in 1218, Freiburg passed to the Counts of Kyburg by inheritance.

January 1219: The county emerged when Egino IV, Count of Urach by marriage, inherited large parts of the Duchy of Zähringen upon the death of Duke Berthold V in 1218, and it was originally called the county of Freiburg.

January 1219: Zähringen became extinct in 1218.

January 1219: The House of Zähringen died out in 1218, which put an end to the dream of this noble family of establishing a territorially closed princely state in the area of southern Germany and German-speaking Switzerland. A large part of the inheritance, eas acquired by the Habsburgs.

January 1219: Ortenau is acquired by the Hohenstaufen imperial family.

January 1219: After the death of the last childless Zähringer, Berchtold V, Solothurn, like Bern, became an independent city in 1218. The territory was then taken over by the Imperial City of Bern, solidifying its power in the region.

January 1219: The district of Villingen was an independent imperial city in the Holy Roman Empire from 1218 to 1283 and has had the imperial eagle as its coat of arms ever since.