County of Katzenelnbogen

County of Katzenelnbogen
Grafschaft Katzenelnbogen
1095–1479
Coat of arms of Katzenelnbogen
Coat of arms
The County of Katzenelnbogen shown on an early 18th-century map
The County of Katzenelnbogen shown on an early 18th-century map
StatusCounty
CapitalKatzenelnbogen
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Count 
• 1095 (first)
Dieter I
• 1444–79 (last)
Philip I
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• First mentioned
1095
• County
1138
• Comital line extinct,
    to Hesse-Marburg
1479
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Rhenish Franconia
Landgraviate of Hesse

The County of Katzenelnbogen was an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed between 1095 and 1479, when it was inherited by the Landgraves of Hesse.

The estate comprised two separate territories. The main parts were the original Untergrafschaft ("lower county") with its capital at Katzenelnbogen in the Middle Rhine area and the Obergrafschaft ("upper county") south of the Main River around Darmstadt, predecessor of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt.


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