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Hohenlohe-Weikersheim

County (Principality) of Hohenlohe
Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Hohenlohe
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1450–1806


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Hohenlohe estates, Homann 1748
Capital Öhringen
Religion Roman Catholic
Lutheran
Government Monarchy
Margrave
 •  1157–70 Albert the Bear (first)
 •  1797–1806 Frederick William IV (last)
History
 •  Established 1450
 •  Raised to
    Imperial Counts
13 May
 •  Joined
    Franconian Circle
1500
 •  Raised to
    principality
21 May 1744
 •  Mediatised to
    Württemberg
12 July 1806
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Bishopric of Würzburg Bishopric of Würzburg
Kingdom of Württemberg


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Hohenlohe is the name of a German princely dynasty descended from the ancient Franconian Imperial immediate noble family that belonged to the German High Nobility (Hoher Adel). The family was granted the titles of Count (in 1450) and Prince (see below). In 1806 the Princes of Hohenlohe lost their independence and their lands formed part of the Kingdoms of Bavaria and of Württemberg by the Act of the Confederation of the Rhine (12 July 1806). At the time of this mediatization in 1806, the area of Hohenlohe was 1 760 km² and its estimated population was 108,000. The Act of the Confederation of the Rhine deprived the Princes of Hohenlohe of their Imperial immediacy, but did not confiscate their possessions. Until the German Revolution of 1918–19 the Princes of Hohenlohe, as other mediatized families, had important political privileges. They were considered equal by birth (Ebenbürtigkeit) to the European Sovereign houses. In Bavaria, Prussia and Württemberg the Princes of Hohenlohe had hereditary right to sit in the House of Lords. In 1825 the Assembly / Diet of the German Confederation recognized the predicate of "Most Serene Highness" (Durchlaucht) for the heads of the Hohenlohe lines.

An early ancestor was mentioned in 1153 as one Conrad, Lord of Weikersheim. His son Conrad jun. called himself the possessor of Hohlach (Hohenloch or Hohenlohe) Castle near Uffenheim, and the dynasty's influence was soon perceptible between the Franconian valleys of the Kocher, the Jagst and the Tauber Rivers, an area that was to be called the Hohenlohe Plateau. (In 1378, Hohenlohe was sold to the Burggraves of Nuremberg ).


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