Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar was a County of the

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. It was created as a partition of

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein was a county of the Sauerland of Germany. Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein was a partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein, comprising the southern portion of the Wittgenstein County. In 1657, it was partitioned into Sayn-Wittgen ...

, and was inherited by

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein was a county and later principality between Hesse-Darmstadt and Westphalia. History The county with imperial immediacy was formed by the 1657 partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein and raised from a county to ...

in 1775.

Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar (1657–1775)

* Friedrich Wilhelm (1657–1685, 85) * Johann Friedrich (1685–1718) * Franz Friedrich Hugo (1718–1769) * Johann Wilhelm (1718–1775) 1657 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire {{Germany-hist-stub