Polity Grueningen County

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

  • January 1090: Medieval Metzingen was first mentioned in a document in 1075 and half went to the Counts of Grüningen in 1089.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • January 1201: Grüningen passed through the Counts of Veringen to the Counts of Württemberg at the end of the 12th century, who established the line of the Counts of Grüningen-Landau there.
  • January 1301: Rudolf I of Germany acquires Grüningen-Landau.
  • January 1318: In 1317 Metzingen went to the Counts of Württemberg.

Disestablishment

  • January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.

Selected Sources

  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31