List of the Counts of Rietberg

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The Counts of Rietberg ruled in the county of Rietberg , today Rietberg .

Ruling Counts of the County of Rietberg from the House of Rietberg
Reign Ruler Remarks
1237-1264 Konrad I. Konrad von Werl-Arnsberg-Cuyk received the northern Arnsberg by division and named it after his residence Grafschaft Rietberg .
1264-1282 Friedrich I. Friedrich took over the county long before the death of his father Konrad and died before him.
1282-1313 Konrad II. From 1302 Konrad ruled together with his brother Friedrich. The county was divided between the two.
1302-1322 Friedrich II. Friedrich ruled first with his brother Konrad and then with his nephew Otto.
1313-1347 Otto I. Since his uncle Friedrich II died without a male heir, Otto was able to reunite the county in his hands from 1322.
1347-1365 Conrad III. Konrad expanded the rights of the Rietberg rule by assigning the county to the emperor as a fief and getting it back with extended rights.
1365-1389 Otto II.
1389-1428 Conrad IV.
1428-1472 Konrad V. Konrad had to assign the county of Rietberg to the Landgraviate of Hesse as a fief and thus forfeited the imperial immediacy .
1472-1516 Johann I.
1516-1535 Otto III. Otto acquires entitlement to the Harlingerland through marriage to Onna von Esens .
1535-1552 Otto IV. Otto introduced the Lutheran church order in the county of Rietberg. Shared the rule with Johann II.
1552-1562 Johann II. As the last male descendant of the Rietberger of the Arnsberg family, "the great Johann" dies in captivity.
1565-1584 Armgard Armgard dies childless.
1584-1586 Walburgis Through the marriage with the Count of East Friesland , Enno III. from the house of Cirksena , Walburgis founds the house of Ostfriesland-Rietberg.
Ruling Counts of the County of Rietberg from the House of East Friesland
Reign Ruler Remarks
1586-1618 Sabina Catharina In the Berumer comparison, Sabina Catharina was awarded the county of Rietberg and in return gave the Harlingerland to East Frisia. She re-Catholicizes Rietberg.
1618-1625 Johann III. Johann was the husband and uncle of Sabina Catharinas. He ruled Rietberg after her death and founded a monastery.
1625-1640 Ernst Cristoph The turmoil of the Thirty Years' War and the completion of the house monastery in Rietberg fall during his reign .
1640-1660 Johann IV.
1660–? Anna Catharina Anna Catharina was Johann's widow and outlived all of her sons.
1660-1677 Friedrich Wilhelm Friedrich Wilhelm fell young before Strasbourg.
1677-1680 Franz Adolph Wilhelm In order to remain canon , he passed Rietberg first to his brother Ferdinand Maximilian and after his death to his nieces.
1680-1687 Ferdinand Maximilian
1699-1758 Maria Ernestine Francisca As the last of the House of East Friesland, she married Maximilian Ulrich von Kaunitz and founded the House of Kaunitz-Rietberg.
Ruling Counts of the County of Rietberg from the House of Kaunitz
Reign Ruler Remarks
1746-1794 Wenceslaus Anton After the death of his father, Wenzel Anton entered the rule of Rietberg together with his mother Maria Ernestine Francisca.
1794-1797 Ernst Christoph
1797-1812 Dominik Andreas Under Dominik Andreas, the county of Rietberg was mediatized and initially added to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia .
1812-1848 Aloys Aloys sold the civil rights to Rietberg, which he still held under Prussian sovereignty, to the Prussian crown.

The title of Count von Rietberg is also used by the rulers of Liechtenstein due to the marital union of Gundakar of Liechtenstein with Sabina Catharina's sister Agnes .