House of Sickingen
Nobel house of the Holy Roman Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nobel house of the Holy Roman Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The House of Sickingen is an old southwest German noble family. The lords of Sickingen belonged to the Kraichgau nobility and from 1797 to the Imperial nobility. Significant relatives emerged from the family, who achieved great influence in both spiritual and secular offices. Reinhard von Sickingen was Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1445 to 1482 and Kasimir Anton von Sickingen was Prince-Bishop of Constance from 1743 to 1750. Imperial Knight Franz von Sickingen (1481-1523) was a leader of the Rhenish and Swabian knighthood.
| Sickingen Von Sickingen | |
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| Noble family | |
Coat of arms of the Counts of Sickingen | |
| Place of origin | Kraichgau, Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire |
| Founded | 1280s (1289) |
| Founder | Ludewicus de Sickingen |
| Estate(s) | |
| Dissolution | May 31, 1932 |
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The Sickingen-Sickingen line of the family died out in 1834, and the Sickingen-Hohenburgs in 1932.
The Lordship of Landstuhl was a knightly territory of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in today's Rhineland-Palatinate. Feuded by the Lords of Sickingen from the 16th to the 18th century, it fell to France along with the left bank of the Rhine in 1801 and became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816. The lordship was divided into the "Great Jurisdiction" (Großgericht) and the "Little Jurisdiction" (Kleingericht).[1] Within the Großgericht were the villages of Bann, Harsberg, Hermersberg, Horbach, Kindsbach, Krickenbach, Linden, Queidersbach, Weselberg and Zeselberg. The Kleingericht oversaw the villages of Gerhardsbrunn, Hauptstuhl, Kirchenarnbach, Knopp, Langwieden, Martinshöhe, Mittelbrunn, Mühlbach, Oberarnbach, Obernheim, Scharrhof and Schauerberg,
Colours and elements from the Sickingen coat of arms still appear today in many county, town and village coats of arms in the former territory of the Sickingens.
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