Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein
| County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein | ||||||||||
| Grafschaft Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Laasphe | |||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Partitioned from S-W-Wittgenstein |
1657 1657 |
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| • | Raised to principality | 1801 | ||||||||
| • | Mediatised to Hesse | 1806 | ||||||||
| • | Annexed by Prussia | 1816 | ||||||||
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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein was a county between Hesse-Darmstadt and Westphalia. It was formed by the 1657 partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein and raised from a county to a principality of the Holy Roman Empire in 1801. It belonged from 1806 to 1815 to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and after 1816 to Prussia. The capital was Laasphe. The family line belongs to the house of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.
The current head of this branch of the House of Sayn is Bernhart, 6th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein; Bernhart is the son of Christian Heinrich 5th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1908-1983) and of Princess Dagmar zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1919-2002)
Four dynastic branches of the princely House of Sayn were extant at the beginning of the 20th century, each possessing its own secundogeniture. In order of seniority of legitimate descent from their progenitor, Ludwig I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1532-1605), they were the:
Some of these lines had junior branches, dynastic and non-dynastic, the latter including families whose right to the princely title was recognized by the Russian, Prussian and Bavarian monarchies, whereas other morganatic branches used lesser titles in Germany.
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