Pappenheim-Schwindegg Explained

Native Name:German: Pappenheim-Schwindegg
Conventional Long Name:Pappenheim-Schwindegg
Common Name:Pappenheim-Schwindegg
Status:Lordship
Empire:Holy Roman Empire
Status Text:State of the Holy Roman Empire
Era:Middle Ages
Government Type:Feudal monarchy
Year Start:1518
Year End:1568
Event Start:Established
Event End:Inherited and renamed to Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen
P1:Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen
S1:Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen
Capital:Schwindegg
Common Languages:German
Religion:Roman Catholic
Lutheran 1555
Title Leader:Lord
Today:Germany

Pappenheim-Schwindegg was a statelet in the Holy Roman Empire that existed from 1518 until 1568.

History

Schwindegg was first mentioned in 1389, and formed an immediate lordship in the Holy Roman Empire, from 1394 ruled by the barons of Fraunhofen.

In 1518 the Fraunhofens became extinct in the male line and Schwindegg passed by marriage of the heiress Anna to Ulrich, a younger son of the lord of Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen, thereby founding the line of Pappenheim-Schwindegg. In 1555 the family converted to Lutheranism. After the Treuchtlingen line became extinct in 1568, the Schwindegg line inherited that territory, and assumed that name and title.

Schwindegg was sold to the knight Sebastian of Haunsperg in 1591.

Heads of state

Lords of Pappenheim-Schwindegg (1518 – 1568)

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