Polity Everstein County

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

  • January 1117: Since 1116, the noble lords and counts of Everstein (also Eberstein) have been named after the castles on the Großer and Kleiner Everstein (Everstein Castle) on the Burgberg in the Holzminden district, Lower Saxony.

Chronology

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Disestablishment

  • January 1409: Peace was concluded in 1408. Hermann VII von Everstein engaged his only four-year-old daughter Elisabeth to Otto IV von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, son of Duke Bernhard I, and gave Aerzen as a dowry. The county with Polle Castle was handed over to the Dukes of Brunswick.