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Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
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was established in 1599 in Coat of arms
the course of a resettlement
of Schwarzburg dynasty
lands. Since the 11th
century, the ancestral seat
of the comital family had
been at Schwarzburg Castle,
though after 1340, for most
of its existence as a polity
had the capital at the larger
town of Rudolstadt. In 1583
Heidecksburg residence at Count Gnther XLI of
Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt within German
Schwarzburg, the eldest son
Empire
of Gnther XL the Rich and
ruler over the united
Schwarzburg lands, had died without issue. He was succeeded by
his younger brothers, whereby Albert VII received the territory
around Rudolstadt. After their brother Count William of
Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen had died in 1597, the surviving
brothers Albert VII and John Gnther I established the two
counties of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-
Sondershausen by the 1599 Treaty of Stadtilm.
Albert's descendants ruled as sovereign counts of the Holy
Roman Empire. Count Albert Anton (16621710) was elevated to
the rank of a Prince by Emperor Leopold I of Habsburg, it was
however his son Louis Frederick I (17101718) who first bore the
princely title, whereby Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1711 became a
principality under the same entity. It withstood the
mediatisation and after the Empire's dissolution joined the
Confederation of the Rhine in 1807 and the German
Confederation in 1815.
Upon the death in 1971 of Prince Friedrich Gnther, the last in the male line,
his elder sister, Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg, who married
Friedrich Magnus V, Count of Solms-Wildenfels, could have had a claim to the
headship under Semi-Salic primogeniture.[1][2]
See also
House of Schwarzburg
External links
House laws of Schwarzburg (http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty
/HGSchwarzburg.htm)
Aerial view at Schwarzburg
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt". Encyclopdia
Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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