Native Name: | German: Grafschaft Wied |
Conventional Long Name: | County of Wied |
Common Name: | Wied |
Era: | Middle Ages |
Status: | Vassal |
Empire: | Holy Roman Empire |
Government Type: | Principality |
Year Start: | 1093 |
Year End: | 1698 |
Life Span: | 1093–1243 1462–1698 |
Event Start: | Established / German: [[Reichsfrei]]heit |
Event1: | Comital line extinct; passed to Isenburg-Wied |
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Event2: | Inherited by Lords of Runkel and restored |
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Event3: | Partitioned to create Wied-Dierdorf |
Date Event3: | 1631 |
Event End: | Partitioned into W-Neuwied, W-Runkel |
Event Post: | Both parts mediatised to Nassau-Weilburg |
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P1: | Duchy of Franconia |
S1: | Wied-Dierdorf |
S2: | Wied-Neuwied |
S3: | Wied-Runkel |
Capital: | Wied |
The County of Wied (pronounced as /de/) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire located on the river Wied where it meets the Rhine. Wied emerged as a County earlier than many other German states. From 1243–1462, Wied was united with an Isenburgian County as Isenburg-Wied. Wied was partitioned twice: between itself and Wied-Dierdorf in 1631, and between Wied-Neuwied and Wied-Runkel in 1698. The county was incorporated into the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 and into the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Since 1946, its territory has been part of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Via William of Albania, the House of Wied ruled the Principality of Albania in 1914.
To Isenburg-Wied (1243–1462)
Partitioned between Wied-Neuwied and Wied-Runkel