Ernst VII von Hohnstein

Epitaph of Count Ernst VII von Hohnstein in the chapter house of the Walkenried monastery

Count Ernst VII von Hohnstein , contemporary von Honstein (born March 24, 1562 in Klettenberg ; † July 8, 1593 in Walkenried ) was the last ruler of the County of Hohnstein from the family of the Counts of Hohnstein . He was the son of Volkmar Wolf von Hohnstein . With the death of Ernst, the Harz- based branch of this Harz count family died out, as his only son Volkmar Wolf had died in 1586 at the age of three. After his death, his widow Agnes, who came from the Eberstein-Naugard family, married into the Schenk von Tautenburg family .

Since 1433 there was a hereditary brotherhood with the Counts of Schwarzburg and the Counts of Stolberg , which provided for mutual succession. Nevertheless, the administrator of the Diocese of Halberstadt , Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig, took the County of Hohnstein in as an extinct fiefdom and lent it to the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , of which he was Duke.

Count Ernst von Hohnstein's grave epitaph has been preserved in the Walkenried Monastery Cistercian Museum to this day .

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SURNAME	Ernst VII von Hohnstein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Count Ernst von Hohnstein; Ernst von Hohnstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	last regent of the county of Hohnstein
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1562
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klettenberg
DATE OF DEATH	July 8, 1593
Place of death	Walkenried