Castell-Rüdenhausen was a County in the region of

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in northern

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of the

Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity in Western, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. From the accession of Otto I in 962 ...

, ruled by a branch of the Counts of Castell. It was created as a partition of Castell and in 1806, it was mediatised to Bavaria. A branch of the Princely House is the famous noble

Faber-Castell family The House of Faber-Castell, originating from Stein near Nuremberg, Germany, is the name of an entrepreneurial noble family, morganatic branch of the House of Castell-Rüdenhausen, which founded the Faber-Castell AG in 1761 and the Nürnberger ...

Counts of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1597 - 1806)

*Godfrey (1597 - 1635) *George Frederick (1635 - 1653) *Philip Godfrey (1653 - 1681) *John Frederick (1681 - 1749) *Frederick Louis (1749 - 1803) *Christian Frederick (previously Count of Castell-Castell) (1803 - 1806)

(Mediatized) Counts of Castell-Rüdenhausen

* Christian Frederick (1806 - 1850) * Wolfgang (1850-1901)

(Mediatized) Princes of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1901)

* Wolfgang, Count 1850–1901, 1st Prince 1901-1913 (1830-1913), m. Emma, Princess of Ysenburg and Büdingen ** Casimir, 2nd Prince 1913-1933 (1861-1933), m. Mechtild, Countess of Bentinck *** Rupert, 3rd Prince 1933-1944 (1910-1944) *** Siegfried, 4th Prince 1944-2007 (1916-2007), m. Irene, Countess of

Solms-Laubach Solms-Laubach was a County of southern Hesse and eastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The House of SolmsSee German article on the '' House of Solms'' or French article '' Maison de Solms. had its origins in Solms, Hesse. History Solms-Laubach ...

**** Johann-Friedrich, 5th Prince 2007-2014 (1948-2014), m. Maria, Countess of Schönborn-Wiesentheid ***** Otto, 6th Prince 2014-present (b.1985) ******Lelio Johann-Friedrich Theodor (b. October 13, 2020) ***** Prince Anton (b.1992)

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