Waldenburg County

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Establishment

• January 1176: The origin of the Waldenburg lordship dates back to the 12th century. In the course of the expansion of the state and the German settlement in the east, the noble-free lords of Wartha, who had their ancestral seat in Warta in the diocese of Naumburg, left the area on the Unstrut on behalf of Emperor Friedrich I (called Barbarossa) and founded between 1165 and 1175 south-east of Altenburg a new reign.

Chronology

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1. Mongol invasions and conquests

Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

1.1. Mongol Invasions of Germany

Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.

1.1.1. First Mongol Invasion of Germany

Was a Mongol raid in the Holy Roman Empire.

• May 1241: The Mongols invaded the Holy Roman Empire without major clash of arms.The army invaded eastern Germany, and crossed the March of Moravia in April-May 1241.
• June 1241: The Mongols left eastern Germany and Moravia.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

• January 1379: From 1378 Selva was the main seat of the Waldenburg family.
• January 1379: The dominion of Waldenburg passed to the House of Schönburg.

Disestablishment

• January 1474: After the death of the last Waldenburg resident, the property fell to the sovereigns, the Wettin family, as a settled fief in 1473.

Selected Sources

• Strakosh-Grassmann, G. (1893): Der Einfall der Mongolen in Mitteleuropa in den Jahren 1241 und 1242, Innsbruck (Austria), pp. 53-67