Pappenheim (state)

Lordship (County) of Pappenheim
Herrschaft (Grafschaft) Pappenheim
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1030–1806
Coat of arms
Capital		Pappenheim
Government		Principality
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Lordship founded	ca 1030
•	Partitioned in four	1439
•	Partitioned in twain	1558
•	Raised to county	1628
•	Stühlingen inherited     by Fürstenberg	1629
•	Mediatised to Bavaria	1806
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Swabia Kingdom of Bavaria

Pappenheim was a German statelet in western Bavaria, Germany, located on the Altmühl river between Treuchtlingen and Solnhofen, and south of Weißenburg.

History

Pappenheim originated as a Lordship around 1030, and was raised to a county in 1628.

The first member of the House of Pappenheim was Henricus Caput, mentioned in 1111 as vassal of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor. From about 1100 until 1806 the Lords and Counts of Pappenheim held the position of hereditary marshals of the Holy Roman Empire, a court office that made them deputies of the Empire's arch marshals, the Electors of Saxony, with certain ceremonial tasks at the Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor.

Pappenheim was partitioned twice: between itself, Alesheim (Aletzheim), Gräfenthal and Treuchtlingen in 1439; and between itself and Stühlingen in 1558. Pappenheim absorbed: Alesheim 1697; Gräfenthal 1536; and Treuchtlingen 1647. Treuchtlingen was purchased in 1447/53 and, after the Treuchtlingen branch extinguished in 1647, became part of the Principality of Ansbach. Stühlingen, acquired in 1582, was inherited by Fürstenberg in 1639. Pappenheim was mediatised to Bavaria in 1806.

Heads of state

Lords of Pappenheim (c. 1030–1628)

Coat of arms of the Lords and Counts of Pappenheim as hereditary marshals of the Holy Roman Empire

• Henry I (c. 1030–?)
• Henry II
• Henry III
• Ernest (?–1170)
• Henry I (1170–93)
• Rudolph I (1193–1221)
• Frederick (1221–40) with...
  • Rudolph II (1221–33)
• Henry III (1240–78)
• Henry IV (1278–1318)
• Rudolph I (1313–35)
• Rudolph II (1335–45)
• Henry V (1345–87)
• Haupt I (1387–1409)
• Haupt II (1409–39) with...
  • Sigismund (1409–36)
• Henry (1439–82)
• William (1482–1508)
• Joachim (1508–36)
• Wolfgang I (1536–58)
• Christopher (1558–69) with...
  • Philip (1558–19) and...
  • Wolfgang II (1558–85) and...
• Wolfgang Christopher (1585–1628)

Counts of Pappenheim (1628–1806)

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594–1632), field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War

• Wolfgang Christopher (1628–35)
• Wolfgang Philip (Count of Aletzheim) (1628–71)
• Charles Philip Gustav (1671–92)
• Louis Francis (1692–97)
• Christian Ernest (Count of Aletzheim) (1697–1721) with...
  • John Frederick (Count of Aletzheim) (1697–1731) and...
  • Frederick Ernest (1721–25) and...
  • Albert Louis Frederick (1725–33)
• Frederick Ferdinand (1733–73)
• John Frederick Ferdinand (1773–92)
• Charles Theodore Frederick Eugene Francis (1792–1806)
  • Frederick William (regent) (1792–97)

After German Mediatization

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