Königsegg-Aulendorf
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Königsegg-Aulendorf was a county of southeastern Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. The territories of Königsegg-Aulendorf by 1806 were four separate exclaves, centred around Königsegg
Königsegg
Königsegg was a German statelet of southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Königsegg emerged in 1192 as a Lordship, and was raised to a Barony in 1470...

 in the west, Aulendorf
Aulendorf
Aulendorf is a town in the district of Ravensburg, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 20 km southwest of Biberach an der Riß, and 19 km north of Ravensburg....

 in the east, and two smaller territories north and south of the Teutonic Knights'
Teutonic Knights
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem , commonly the Teutonic Order , is a German medieval military order, in modern times a purely religious Catholic order...

 territory at Altshausen
Altshausen
Altshausen is a small Swabian municipality near Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany.- Geography :Altshausen is situated in Upper Swabia, about 40 kilometers north of Lake Constance...

. Königsegg-Aulendorf was created as a Baronial partition of the Barony of Königsegg
Königsegg
Königsegg was a German statelet of southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Königsegg emerged in 1192 as a Lordship, and was raised to a Barony in 1470...

, and was raised to a County in 1629. Königsegg-Aulendorf was mediatised
German Mediatisation
The German Mediatisation was the series of mediatisations and secularisations that occurred in Germany between 1795 and 1814, during the latter part of the era of the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic Era....

 to Württemberg
Württemberg
Württemberg , formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....

in 1806.

Counts of Königsegg-Aulendorf (1629–1806)

  • John George (1629–1666)
  • Anthony Eusebius (1666–1692)
  • Francis Maximilian (1692–1710)
  • Charles Siegfried (1710–1765)
  • Herman Frederick (1765–1786)
  • Ernest (1786–1803)
  • Francis (1803–1806)
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