Pappenheim-Schwindegg

Pappenheim-Schwindegg Pappenheim-Schwindegg
1518–1568
Coat of arms
Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital	Schwindegg
Common languages	German
Religion	Roman Catholic Lutheran 1555
Government	Feudal monarchy
Lord
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	1518
• Inherited and renamed to Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen	1568
Preceded by Succeeded by Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen
Today part of	Germany

Pappenheim-Schwindegg was a statelet in the Holy Roman Empire that existed from 1518 until 1568.

History

Schwindegg was first mentioned in 1389, and formed an immediate lordship in the Holy Roman Empire, from 1394 ruled by the barons of Fraunhofen.

In 1518 the Fraunhofens became extinct in the male line and Schwindegg passed by marriage of the heiress Anna to Ulrich, a younger son of the lord of Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen, thereby founding the line of Pappenheim-Schwindegg. In 1555 the family converted to Lutheranism. After the Treuchtlingen line became extinct in 1568, the Schwindegg line inherited that territory, and assumed that name and title.

Schwindegg was sold to the knight Sebastian of Haunsperg in 1591.

Heads of state

Lords of Pappenheim-Schwindegg (1518 – 1568)

• Ulrich (1518–1539)
• George IV (1539–1553)
• Veit (1553–1568), Lord of Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen (1568–1600)

External links

• (in German) Deutsche Biographie – Von Pappenheim
• (in German) Historisches Lexikon Bayerns – Reichsmarschälle von Pappenheim

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