Polity Kefernburg County

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

  • January 1104: The Counts of Kevernburg, the Counts of Schwarzburg and the Counts of Rabenswalde-Wiehe have the Sizzonen as a common ancestor. Their eponymous headquarters was the Kevernburg, today's Käfernburg near Arnstadt. In the early Middle Ages, the counts belonged to the Thuringian high nobility. Sizzo III. (* ca. 1093; † 1160) was first mentioned in 1103 and called himself both Count of Kevernburg and Count of Schwarzburg.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • May 1387: His land was sold by his mother, Countess Sophia von Schwarzburg, and his wife Mechthild on May 29, 1387 to Landgrave Balthasar of Thuringia.

Disestablishment

  • May 1387: His land was sold by his mother, Countess Sophia von Schwarzburg, and his wife Mechthild on May 29, 1387 to Landgrave Balthasar of Thuringia.