Sponheim-Sayn
County of Sponheim-Sayn Grafschaft Sponheim-Sayn | |||||||||||
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| 1261–1283 | |||||||||||
| Status | County | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
• Partitioned from Sponheim-Eberstein | 1261 | ||||||||||
| 1283 | |||||||||||
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History
Sponheim-Sayn was a county of the Holy Roman Empire in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was created as a partition of Sponheim-Starkenburg in 1261, and comprised the lands of the former county of Sayn.[1] In 1283, it was divided into Sayn and Sayn-Homburg.[1][2]
Count of Sponheim-Sayn
References
- ^ a b c Halbekann, Joachim J. (2005). "Sayn". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 22. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 481–482.
- ^ a b Schwennicke, Detlev (2010). Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge. Vol. XXVII: Zwischen Maas und Rhein 3. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann. Tafel XXVII.135. ISBN 978-3-465-03663-0.