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Anton Henry, Count Of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Anton Henry, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (7 October 1571 in Sondershausen – 10 August 1638, Sondershausen) was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen from 1594 until his death. Life He was the son of Count John Günther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1532-1586), and his wife, Countess Anna (1539-1579), a daughter of Count Anthony I of Olenburg-Delmenhorst. He was still a minor, when his father died, an so were his brothers, and they were put under the regency and guardianship of their maternal uncles John VII (1540-1603) and Anthony II (1550-1619). Later, the brothers ruled jointly. During this period, Anton Henry did most of the work, especially during the inheritance dispute with the Counts of Honstein. The county suffered badly during the Thirty Years' War. The worst his area was around Arnstadt Arnstadt () is a town in Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany, on the river Gera about south of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. Arnsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Schwarzburg
The House of Schwarzburg was one of the oldest noble families of Thuringia. Upon the death of Prince Friedrich Günther in 1971, a claim to the headship of the house passed under Semi-Salic primogeniture to his elder sister, Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg who married Friedrich Magnus V, Count of Solms-Wildenfels.James, John ''Almanach de Gotha, Volume I'', 2013. Reigning over the County of Schwarzburg and founded by Sizzo I of Schwarzburg (died 1160), the family split in the 16th century into the lines of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, with the Sondershausen dying out in 1909. Family history The County of Schwarzburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1195 to 1595, when it was partitioned into Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. It was ruled by counts from the House of Schwarzburg. Schwarzburg Castle was first mentioned in a 1071 deed. In 1123 Count Sizzo III of Käfernburg (Kevernburg), mentioned by the medieval chro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
