Knight Canton of Danube
The knightly canton of Danube was one of the five cantons of the Imperial Knighthood of Swabia .
The seat of the canton was in Ehingen (Danube) in Upper Austria .
Structure of the knight circles
The free imperial knighthood in south-west Germany was divided into a Rhenish , Franconian and Swabian knight circle , which in turn consisted of different cantons. The Swabian knight circle was divided into the cantons of Danube, Hegau-Allgäu-Bodensee , Neckar-Black Forest , Kocher and Kraichgau .
Noble families in the canton of Danube
The following families belonged to the knightly canton of Danube:
- Bernhausen : Lordship of Herrlingen - Klingenstein
- Bömelburg, Bem (m) elberg
- Eyb
- Freyberg
- Fugger : Rule of Brandenburg
- Hornstein : Hornstein Castle , Bußmannshausen reign
- Love stone
- Neuhausen from Neuhausen on the Fildern with half the good Schnürpflingen
- Oettingen
- Palm-Gundelfingen with Hohengundelfingen rule
- Rassler von Gamerschwang
- Reichlin von Meldegg , Lordship Fellheim
- Reuttner von Weyl , Herrschaft Hürbel
- Riedheim : Lordship of Rettenbach, Harthausen and Stetten ob Lontal
- Rodt (Roth) von Bussmannshausen
- Roth von Schreckenstein
- Gift from Castell
- Schwarzenberg
- Schwendi
- Speth (Späth): Herrschaft Schülzburg (there also Speth von Schülzburg )
- Stadion
- Stain : Lordship of Bergenweiler
- Stotzingen
- Stauffenberg
- Tänzl from Tratzberg
- Thurn and Taxis
- Ulm-Erbach-Mittelbiberach
- Ungelter from Deissenhausen
- Vöhlin from Illertissen
- Welden , rule Welden
- Wernau
- Westernach