County of Sayn(-Sayn)

 

This page covers the lineage-based County of Sayn and one of its successors, Sayn-Sayn. (The other successor, Sayn-Homberg, is covered here). The geographic County of Sayn, where the lineage-based counts resided, has its own page, which you can reach through the links in the Personal Unions section.

 

• Nation: Sayn-Wittgensteinian Germany
• Chronology
  • 1266: Founded upon the partition of Sponheim-Starkenburg with full sovereignty over the County of Sayn and the Lordship of Homburg.
  • 1294: Partitioned, retaining all of Sayn proper and half of Homburg, and adopts the name County of Sayn-Sayn
  • 1478: Acquires partial sovereignty over Freier Grund (shared with Nassau-Dillenburg)
  • 1560: Beginning of database (1)
  • 1604: Surrenders its share of Homburg to the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein
  • 1606: Terminated upon the extinction of the male line
• Personal unions
  • as primary
    • County of Sayn (1560-1606)
  • as shared primary
    • Lordship of Homburg (50%) (1560-1606)
• Condominium participation
  • Freier Grund (50%) (1560-1606)

 

(1) Beginning of the reign of the last count from this line