County of Henneberg
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| Country | Holy Roman Empire |
| Parent house | House of Babenberg in turn from the Robertian Dynasty |
| Titles | Princely Counts of Henneberg |
| (Princely) County of Henneberg | ||||||||||||||
| (Gefürstete) Grafschaft Henneberg (de) | ||||||||||||||
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 County of Henneberg around 1350
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| Capital |
Henneberg Schleusingen Römhild |
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| Languages | East Franconian | |||||||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages, Renaissance | |||||||||||||
| • | Poppo I, first count | c. 1037 | ||||||||||||
| • | Internally divided | 1274 | ||||||||||||
| • | Raised to principality | 1310 | ||||||||||||
| • | Joined Franconian Circle |
1500 | ||||||||||||
| • | Schleusingen branch extinct |
1583 | ||||||||||||
| • | Divided | 1660 | ||||||||||||
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The House of Henneberg was a medieval German comital family (Grafen) which from the 11th century onwards held large territories in the Duchy of Franconia. Their county was raised to a princely county (Gefürstete Grafschaft) in 1310.
Upon the extinction of the line in the late 16th century, most of the territory was inherited by the Saxon House of Wettin and subsequently incorporated into the Thuringian estates of its Ernestine branch.
The distant origins of this family are speculative yet seem to originate in the Middle Rhine Valley, east of modern-day France. Charibert, a nobleman in Neustria is the earliest recorded ancestor of the family, dating before 636. Five generations pass between Charibert and the next descendant of note, Rutpert (Robert) I, Count of Rheingau and Wormsgau. Both the Capetian dynasty and the Elder House of Babenberg (Popponids) are direct male lineal descendants of Count Robert I and therefore referred to as Robertians.
The denotion Babenberger, named after the castle of Bamberg (Babenberch), was established in the 12th century by the chronicler Otto of Freising, himself a member of the Babenberg family. The later House of Babenberg, which ruled what became the Duchy of Austria, claimed to come of the Popponid dynasty. However, the descent of the first margrave Leopold I of Austria († 994) remains uncertain.
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