Burgraviate of Friedberg

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Burgraviate of Friedberg Burggrafschaft Friedberg
Middle Ages–1806
Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital	Friedberg
Historical era	Middle Ages, Early modern period
• Established	Middle Ages
• Disestablished	1806
Succeeded by Grand Duchy of Hesse

The Burgraviate of Friedberg was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire. It originated in the Late Middle Ages from the Burgmannschaft of Reichsburg Friedberg in Hesse. Unique within the Empire were the cooperative-organized constitutional structure of the Burggrafschaft and the endowment with manorial privileges by the Emperor, which were confirmed several times until its dissolution in 1806.^[1] Due to the formation of its own territory, which in addition to control over the neighboring Reichsstadt Friedberg and the Freigericht Kaichen included a narrow strip of land in the southern Wetterau, Friedberg Castle can be regarded as the only reichsständische castle since its inclusion in the Reichsmatrikel in 1431.^[2] According to its self-image, the Kayserliche und des heiligen Reichs-Burg Friedberg, as it was called, was a prominent institution of the Imperial Knighthood and directly subordinate to the king or emperor.