Königsegg-Aulendorf was a county of southeastern
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
,
Germany
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. It was created in 1622 as a
baronial partition of the Barony of
Königsegg, and it was raised to a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
in 1629.
By 1806, the territories of Königsegg-Aulendorf were four separate
exclaves, centred on Königsegg in the west,
Aulendorf
Aulendorf () is a town in the district of Ravensburg, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated southwest of Biberach an der Riß, and north of Ravensburg.
Aulendorf exists of the town itself along with the incorporated villages Tannha ...
in the east, and two smaller territories (north and south) of the
Teutonic Knights' territory at
Altshausen. Königsegg-Aulendorf was
mediatised to the
Kingdom of Württemberg
The Kingdom of Württemberg (german: Königreich Württemberg ) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg, which existe ...
in 1806.
Baron of Königsegg-Aulendorf (1622–29)
* John George (1622–1629)
Counts of Königsegg-Aulendorf (1629–1806)
*John George (1629–1666)
*Anthony Eusebius (1666–1692)
*Francis Maximilian (1692–1710)
*Charles Siegfried (1710–1765)
*Herman Frederick (1765–1786)
*Ernest (1786–1803)
*Francis (1803–1806)
Mediatized Counts of Königsegg-Aulendorf (1806–present)
* Francis, 7th Count 1803-1863 (1787-1863)
** Gustav, 8th Count 1863-1882 (1813-1882)
** Alfred, 9th Count 1882-1898 (1817-1898)
*** Xaver, 10th Count 1898-1927 (1858-1927)
**** Joseph Erwin, 11th Count 1927-1951 (1891-1951)
***** Johannes, 12th Count 1951–2020 (1925-2020)
****** Maximilian, 13th Count 2020-present (b. 1958)
******* Count Philipp, Hereditary Count of Königsegg-Aulendorf (b. 1988)
******* Count Nikolaus (b. 1990)
****** Count Markus (b. 1963)
******* Count Constantin (b. 1993)
******* Count Géza (b. 1998)
References
1622 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
Counties of the Holy Roman Empire
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