Native Name: | Grafschaft Sponheim-Sayn |
Conventional Long Name: | County of Sponheim-Sayn |
Common Name: | Sponheim-Sayn |
Era: | Middle Ages |
Status: | Vassal |
Empire: | Holy Roman Empire |
Government Type: | Principality |
Year Start: | 1261 |
Year End: | 1283 |
Event Start: | Partitioned from Sponheim-Eberstein |
Event End: | Partitioned in twain |
P1: | Sponheim-Eberstein |
S1: | Sayn |
S2: | Sayn-Homburg |
Sponheim-Sayn was a county of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was created as a partition of Sponheim-Starkenburg in 1261, and it comprised the lands of the former county of Sayn. In 1283, it was divided into Sayn and Sayn-Homburg.