The County of Dagsburg with its capital Dagsburg (now

Dabo is a Japanese hip-hop rapper. He first appeared on the Japanese hip-hop scene in the 1990s, collaborating in a Shakkazombie song, ''"Tomo ni ikkou"''. Since 2002, he has released three albums: ''Hitman'' (2002), ''Diamond'' (2003), and ''The For ...

in France) existed in

Lorraine Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gr ...

from 11th to 18th centuries when the area was still part of

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. The ancestral castle in Dabo, the Dagsburg Castle in Lorraine, was acquired by the

Etichonids The Etichonids were an important noble family, probably of Frankish, Burgundian or Visigothic origin, who ruled the Duchy of Alsace in the Early Middle Ages (7th–10th centuries). The dynasty is named for Eticho (also known as Aldarich), who ru ...

shortly before the year 1000 through the marriage of Hugo VI, Count of

Nordgau The Nordgau (from the Germanic for "northern region") can refer to two distinct areas: * Nordgau (Alsace), the Alsatian Nordgau, the medieval County of Nordgau, the northern part of Alsace * Margraviate of the Nordgau, the Bavarian Nordgau in the a ...

and

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, with Heilwig of Dagsburg (d. 1046). The Etichonids built another Dagsburg Castle in

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in 1150. The male members of the family used the title of Count of Dagsburg and Count of Eguisheim at this time; later they added the

County of Metz The County of Metz originated from the Franks, frankish Metzgau. In the second half of the 9th century it went to the Gerhardiner :de:Matfriede, (de), which held at the same time the County of Paris. Over the Gerhardiner went the County—perhaps ...

. Among their possessions were numerous manors in the upper

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area, Moha and Waleffe and

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in the

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. The

died out in 1225. Gertrude of Dagsburg, the last member of the family, left behind eleven castles (including the

Château de Guirbaden The Château de Guirbaden (or Girbaden) is a ruined castle in the ''commune'' of Mollkirch in the Bas-Rhin ''département'' of France. It is situated in the Guirbaden forest, near the village of Mollkirch on the left bank of the Magel River ...

) and the

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ei over nine monasteries. The possessions around Dabo fell to the

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in 1241. Another part of the inheritance went to the

House of Zähringen The House of Zähringen (german: Zähringer) was a dynasty of Swabian nobility. The family's name derived from Zähringen Castle near Freiburg im Breisgau. The Zähringer in the 12th century used the title of Duke of Zähringen, in compensation ...

, who at times left some of their rights to the archbishopric of Strasbourg, with whom they had territorial disputes. The

Bishop of Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Es ...

decided that the fiefs of Moha and Waleffe had fallen vacant, and gave them to the Prince-Bishop of Liège. A branch called Dagsburg-Leiningen existed within the House of Leiningen from 1317 to 1797.

Rulers

References and sources

* Gerhard Köbler: ''Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder'', 1992 * Detlev Schwennicke: ''

Europäische Stammtafeln ''Europäische Stammtafeln'' - German for ''European Family Trees'' - is a series of twenty-nine books which contain sets of genealogical tables of the most influential families of Medieval European history. It is a standard reference work for thos ...

'', vol. I.2, 1999, table 200b History of Alsace History of Lorraine {{Germany-hist-stub