County of Sayn and its successors

 

This page covers the geographic County of Sayn, located on the Wied and Sieg Rivers, and its successors. The lineage-bases entities that governed them have their own pages, which can be reached through the links in the Personal Unions sections.

 

County of Sayn /(adm. Electorate of Cologne)

 

  • Simplified country name
    • Sayn (1560-1623; 1648-1652))
    • Sayn-Bonn (1623-1648)
  • Nation: Sayn-Wittgensteinian Germany
  • Chronology
    • 1139: Created as a county based in Sayn castle
    • 1246: Acquired by Sponheim-Starkenburg upon the extinction of the original Sayn line
    • 1266: Partitioned from Sponheim-Starkenburg and abandons the Sponheim name, creating a new Sayn line
    • 1294: New Sayn line partitioned, with Sayn going to the Sayn-Sayn line
    • 1478: Acquires a share of Freier Grund (shared with Nassau-Dillenburg)
    • 1560: beginning of database (1)
    • 1606: Acquired, via marriage, by the Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn line upon the extinction of the Sponheimian Sayn line
    • 1623: Electorate of Cologne asserts administrative rights
    • 1636: Male Wittgenstein-Sayn line becomes extinct and sovereignty over the county is inherited by the last count’s widow
    • 1648: Electorate of Cologne relinquishes administrative rights to the last count’s widow
    • 1652: Terminated among partition between the daughters of the last count’s widow
  • Successors
    • County of Sayn-Altenkirchen
    • County of Sayn-Hachenburg
  • Personal unions
  • Outsourcings
    • to Electorate of Cologne (1623-1648)
  • Condominium participation
    • Freier Grund (50%) (1478-1560-1652)

 

(1) Beginning of the reign of the last count from the Sayn-Sayn line

 

County of Sayn-Altenkirchen /(in personal union with Saxe-Eisenach/Anspach)

 

  • Simplified country name
    • Sayn-Altenkirchen (1652-1662; 1791-1803)
    • Sayn-Altenkirchen-Eisenach (1662-1741)
    • Sayn-Altenkirchen-Anspach (1741-1791)
  • Nation
  • Predecessor: County of Sayn
  • Chronology
    • 1652: Created upon the partition of Sayn
    • 1662: Enters into personal union with Saxe-Eisenach via marriage
    • 1741: Enters into personal union with Ansbach
    • 1791: Annexed, along with the rest of Ansbach, by the Kingdom of Prussia
    • 1803: Assigned to Nassau-Saarbrücken-Usingen/end of database
  • Personal unions

 

County of Sayn-Hachenburg /(in personal union with Manderscheid-Blankenheim/Nassau-Saarbrücken-Weilburg)

 

  • Simplified country names
    • Sayn-Hachenburg-Blankenheim (1652-1714)
    • Sayn-Hachenburg-Kirchberg (1714-1799)
    • Sayn-Hachenburg-Weilburg (1799-1806)
  • Nations
  • Predecessor: County of Sayn
  • Chronology
    • 1652: Created upon the partition of Sayn and marriage of the heiress to a Manderscheidian
    • 1714: Acquired, via marriage, by the Burgraves of Kirchberg, who held no other sovereign territory with which to be in personal union
    • 1799: Enters into personal union with Nassau-Saarbrücken-Weilburg
    • 1806: Terminated upon the demise of the Holy Roman Empire/end of database
  • Personal unions