County of Pfirt

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Coat of arms of the county of Pfirt
Coat of arms of the Counts of Pfirt in the Zurich coat of arms around 1340

The county of Pfirt with the main town Pfirt (French Ferrette ) in Alsace emerged from the rule of Hohenpfirt Castle in the 11th century . Southern Upper Alsace was subordinate to the Counts of Pfirt .

history

In 1324 the county came to the Habsburgs through the marriage of the heiress Johanna von Pfirt to Albrecht II , Duke of Austria . The formal enfeoffment by the Prince-Bishop of Basel took place the following year (1325). Under the Habsburgs, the county was administered as part of Upper Austria . In 1469 Siegmund of Austria-Tyrol pledged the county of Pfirt to Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy , and through the marriage of his daughter to Maximilian of Austria it fell back to the Habsburgs. Through the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Pfirt was to fall as Comté de Ferrette to the Kingdom of France , which the county finally took possession of in 1650. King Louis XIV donated the county to Cardinal Mazarin in 1659 .

List of the Counts of Pfirt

House Scarponnois

Hohenpfirt Castle, built from 1125 (around 1589, now in ruins)
Hohenpfirt Castle today (June 2020)
  • Ludwig von Mousson , Count, Lord of Mousson , 1042 castellanus in Mömpelgard , Altkirch and Pfirt, † 1073/76
  • Dietrich I. , Count in Altkirch and Pfirt, 1033 in Bar , † 1102/05, son of Ludwig
  • Friedrich I. , 1125 Count von Pfirt, † probably 1160, son of Dietrich
  • Ludwig I, 1161 Count von Pfirt, † 1180, son of Friedrich I, ⚭ Richenza von Habsburg
  • Ulrich I, 1194 Count von Pfirt, † 1197, son of Ludwig I.
  • Ludwig II., Count von Pfirt, † 1189, brother of Ulrich I.
  • Friedrich II., 1194 Count von Pfirt, † 1234, son of Ludwig II.
  • Ulrich II., 1227 Count von Pfirt, † 1275, son of Frederick II.
  • Ludwig III. der Grimmel, 1227 Count von Pfirt, † 1236, brother of Ulrich II.
  • Theobald, 1271 Count von Pfirt, 1292/97 bailiff in Alsace , † 1310/11, son of Ulrich II. ⚭ Katharina von Klingen-Altenklingen , widowed von Lichtenberg
  • Ulrich III., 1311 Count von Pfirt, † 1324, son of Theobald
  • Johanna , 1324 Countess von Pfirt, † 1352, daughter of Count Ulrich III .; ⚭ 1324 Albrecht von Habsburg (II Duke of Austria)

House of Habsburg

House of Burgundy

House of Habsburg

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See also

literature

  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . New series Volume 1, 2: Přemyslids, Ascanians, Dukes of Lorraine, the houses of Hesse, Württemberg and Zähringen. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-465-03020-6 , plate 226.
  • Paul Stintzi: The Sundgau. Landscape, history, culture. Schillinger, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1985, ISBN 3-89155-010-3 .
  • Christian Wilsdorf: Histoire des comtes de Ferrette. (1105-1324). Société d'Histoire Sundgauvienne, Altkirch 1991, ISBN 2-908498-01-4 .

Web links

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