Rechberg The House of Rechberg is the name of an old noble comital family in Swabia during the Holy Roman Empire period. They were sovereign counts of Rechberg and Rothenlöwen. As a mediatized house (mediatized by Württemberg in 1806), the family bel ...

and Rothenlöwen was a county within the

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. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was a renaming of

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, and it inherited Osterberg in 1767. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was mediatised to

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in 1806. It was ruled by the House of Rechberg which would be an important one in the 19th century. Aloys was a prominent

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n statesman, while his son

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, would enter the

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diplomatic service and rise eventually to the post of

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Counts of Rechberg and Rothenlöwen

After German Mediatisation

* Maximilian Emanuel, Count 18..-1819 (1736-1819) ** Aloys, Count 1819-1849 (1766-1849) *** Albrecht, Count 1849-1885 (1803-1885) **** Otto, Count 1885-1918 (1833-1918) ***** Joseph, Count 1918-1967 (1885-1967) ***** ''Count Albert (1887-1983)'' ****** Albert, Count 1967-2013 (1912-2013) ******* Bernhard, Count 2013–present (b.1956) ******** Konrad, Hereditary Count (b.1994) ******** Count Gaudenz (b.1996) ******* Count Nikolaus (b.1958) ******** Count Leon (b.1996)

References

Former states and territories of Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-noble-stub