Lordship of Itter

After the Itter line died out in 1356, its territory became a 50/50 condominium between the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Electorate of Mainz. Mainz, in turn, outsourced the administration of its share to Waldeck until 1542. The Hessian share of Itter fell to Lower Hesse between 1458 and 1500, to Hesse-Rheinfels between 1567 and 1583, and to Hesse-Marburg between 1583 and 1589. By that time, Mainz had been forced out of the condominium and Itter became fully Hessian. When the Marburg line died out in 1604, however, there was a long dispute between Kassel and Darmstadt over sovereignty. They briefly created a formal condominium in 1648, but in 1650, full sovereignty was awarded to Darmstadt, which absorbed it as a subdivision.