County of Veldenz
| County of Veldenz | ||||||||||||
| Grafschaft Veldenz | ||||||||||||
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 Veldenz ca. 1400
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| Capital | Veldenz | |||||||||||
| Languages | Moselle Franconian | |||||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||||
| • | Established | 1112 | ||||||||||
| • | Counts of Veldenz-Geroldseck | 1277 | ||||||||||
| • | Fell to County of Palatinate-Zweibrücken | 1444 | ||||||||||
| • | Joined Upper Rhenish Circle | 1500 | ||||||||||
| • | Counts of Palatinate-Veldenz | 1543 | ||||||||||
| • | Annexed by the First French Empire |
1801 | ||||||||||
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Coat of arms of the Counts of Veldenz
The County of Veldenz was a principality in the contemporary Land Rhineland-Palatinate. The county was located partially between Kaiserslautern, Sponheim and Zweibrücken, partially on the Mosel in the Archbishopric of Trier. A municipality of the same name, Veldenz, and a castle, Schloss Veldenz, are located in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich.
The Counts of Veldenz separated from the Wildgraves of Kyrburg and Schmidburg family in 1112 . The direct male line of the first comital house ceased in 1260 with the death of Gerlach V of Veldenz and his daughter Agnes of Veldenz inherited the county in 1260. Her husband Heinrich of Geroldseck became the founder of the second line of Counts of Veldenz or the House of Veldenz-Geroldseck (Hohengeroldseck).
In 1444 the county came under the rule of Count palatine Stefan of Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken by his marriage to Anna of Veldenz, the only heiress of Count Friedrich III of Veldenz.
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