County of Wittgenstein and its successors
This page covers the geographic County of Wittgenstein and its post-partition successors. The lineage-based entities that ruled them after 1351 have their own pages, which you can find by following the links in the respective Personal Unions sections.
County of Wittgenstein
- Simplified country name: Wittgenstein
- Nation: Sayn-Wittgensteinian Germany
- Chronology
- 1238: Founded upon the partition of the County of Battenburg and Wittgenstein
- 1351: Acquired, via marriage, by the Counts of Sayn upon the extinction of the Wittgenstein line
- 1558: Beginning of database (1)
- 1605: Terminated upon partition among the ruler’s sons
- Successors (2)
- County of Wittgenstein-Berleburg
- County of Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein
- Personal unions
- as secondary
- County of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1558-1605)
- as secondary
(1) Beginning of the reign of the last count prior to partition
(2) A third son received territory previously under the sovereignty of Sayn-Sayn
County of Wittgenstein-Berleburg
- Simplified country name: Wittgenstein-Berleburg
- Nation: Sayn-Wittgensteinian Germany
- Predecessor: County of Wittgenstein
- Chronology
- 1605: Founded upon the partition of Wittgenstein
- 1806: Terminated upon the extinction of the Holy Roman Empire/end of database
- Personal unions
- as secondary
- County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1605-1806)
- as secondary
County of Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein
- Simplified country name: Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein
- Nation: Sayn-Wittgensteinian Germany
- Predecessor: County of Wittgenstein
- Chronology
- 1605: Founded upon the partition of Wittgenstein
- 1806: Terminated upon the extinction of the Holy Roman Empire/end of database
- Personal unions
- as secondary
- County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein (1605-1806)
- as secondary