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TARASP
Imperial Lordship of Tarasp

Tarasp is derived from "terra aspera" (wasteland) indicating that the castle established there was in a clearing area. The founding lords of Tarasp were well-off, especially in the Vintschgau, and probably came from northern Italy.

Territorial Development & Dynastic History
1090: Four brothers of the "in castro de Tarasp" are mentioned
1160: Ulrich III of Tarasp gave his share of the castle to the Bishopric of Chur
1170: Line of Lords of Tarasp died out, their castle passed to the Lords of Reichenberg
1239: Swiker of Reichenberg-Tarasp sold Tarasp to the Counts of Tyrol
?: Tarasp passed to the Lords of Metsch
1512: To Austrian Circle
1683: To Princes of Dietrichstein

References
Tarasp Castle


TECKLENBURG

Titles: Count of Bentheim, Tecklenburg, Steinfurt & Limburg, Lord of Rheda, Wevelinghoven, Hoya, Alpen, Helpenstein, Baron of Lennep, Hereditary Advocate (Erbvogt) of Cologne.

The county of Tecklenburg was formerly far more considerable than it is at present. To it belonged for instance, the seigniory, prefecturate, and citadel of Cloppenburg, together with the little town of Frysoyta, and the burg or fort of Schnappen, the Ems land and Hummelinger land; and also the citadel, town, and prefecturate of Bevergern, with all its appendage ; which places and districts are fallen to the bishopric of Munster fee above, p. 328, together with the seigniory of Lingen, of which we limit treat below. The series of the old Counts of Tecklenburg commences with one Cobbo who lived in the ninth century, and of whom Cranz sometimes makes mention. That the county of Tecklenburg, after the death of Count Conrad, came by his daughter and heiress Anna to the Counts of Bentheim, and in the division of 1591 fell to Count Adolphus, has been related above under the county of Bentheim. In this place we are only further to add that the brothers and sisters of the said Count Conrad, and in particular his sister Anna, who was married to Count Philip of Solms, laid claim to the allodial county of Tecklenburg, and that her son Conrad, Count of Solms, in the year 1577 commenced a suit with Bentheim on this account, which was succeeded by an advantageous sentence of the chamber judicatory in 1686 in favour of Solms-Braunfels, by which three eighths of the county of Tecklenburg, and the seigniory of Rheda, together with all the incomes thereof, which had been enjoyed since the carrying on the process were adjudged to him; to the actual possession of which three eighths he also arrived in the year 1698. In 1699 it was stipulated between John , Adolphus Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg, and William Maurice, Count of Solms and Tecklenburg, at Lengerich, that the latter on account of the incomes of the county which had been adjudged to him from the commencement of the process till the year 1698 would now have the whole citadel of Tecklenburg, together with three fourths of the county of Tecklenburg, and one fourth of the citadel and seigniory of Rheda-, but that Bentheim-Tecklenburwould retain one fourth of the county of Tecklenburg, and three fourths of the citadel and seigniory of Rheda. This stipulation was confirmed, moreover, in the same year by both parties at Braunfels, as also by the Emperor. But the only son of the above-mentioned Count John Adolphus, by name John Augustus and to whom the father, on account of his advanced age ceded the county in the year 1700, dying in the following year 1701, and thus Frederick Maurice of Bentheim-Hohen-Limburg and brother John Adolphus, arriving to the government of Tecklenburg andRbeda; the latter, who had nothing to do with the above-mentioned stipulation, commenced the process a-new at the aulic-council of the Empire; upon which Solms-Braunfels in 1707 disposed of its right to the King of Prussia, who upon this took possession of the whole county." (Busching, pp. 462-463)

Territorial Development & Dynastic History
1189: Simon of Tecklenburg acquired the Lordship of Ibbenburen
1263: Annexed by Bentheim
1327-1557: To Counts of Schwerin
1365: Acquired Lordship of Rheda
1385: Acquired Lordship of Iburg
1493: Division into Tecklenburg (with Rheda) and Lingen
1557: Tecklenburg and Rheda to Bentheim
1696: Tecklenburg to Solms-Braunfels by judgment
1707: Solms-Braunfels sold rights to Brandenburg
1808: To Grand Duchy of Berg<1810>To France
1815: To Prussia
Rulers of Tecklenburg

• Tecklenburg
• fl. c980: Bernard
• 1139-1150: Egbert I of Tecklenburg(c1090-1150) was a vassal of Saxony from 1129 and assumed title of Count of Tecklenburg in 1139.
  
• 1150-1156: Heinrich I (1115-1156)
  
• 1156-1202: Simon I (1140-1202, killed)
• 1202-1263: Otto I (c1185-1263, hanged)
  
• 1202-1226: Heinrich II (d. bef. 1226), Co-Regent
  
• Bentheim-Tecklenburg (1263-1328)
  
• 1263-1279: Otto II of Bentheim-Tecklenburg (c1248-1279)
  
• 1279-1285: Otto III of Tecklenburg (d.c1285)
• 1285-1307: Otto IV of Tecklenburg-Ibbenburn (d.1307)
• 1307-1328: Otto V (d.1329)
  
• 1328-1338: Richardis
• Tecklenburg-Schwerin
  
• 1338-1360: Nicholas I of Schwerin (d.1360/67), Count of Alt-Bruchhausen and Schwerin
• 1360-1388: Otto VI (d.1388)
  
• 1388-1426: Nicholas II (d.1426)
  
• 1426-1450: Otto VII (d.1450)
  
• 1450-1508: Nicholas III (d.1508), Count of Bentheim-Lingen
• 1508-1534: Otto IX (d.1534)
  
• 1534-1557: Konrad (1501-1557), Count of Bentheim-Lingen
• Bentheim-Tecklenburg
• 1557-1562: Everwin III (1536-1562)
• 1562-1606: Arnold II (1554-1606)
  
• 1606-1625: Adolf
• 1625-1674: Moritz
• 1674-1701: Johann Adolf
• 1701-1710: Friedrich Moritz
• 1710-1768: Moritz Kasimir I
• 1768-1805: Moritz Kasimir II
• 1805-1806: Emil Friedrich

References
Biographies of Rulers
The County of Tecklenburg
The County of Tecklenburg (GenWiki)

The County of Tecklenburg (Hoeckmann)
The Family of the Counts of Tecklenburg

Genealogy of Counts of Tecklenburg (FMG)
Genealogy of Counts of Tecklenburg (Marek)

The History of the Bentheim-Tecklenburg Family
Regnal Chronologies



TENGLING

References
Genealogy of Counts of Tengling

THURINGIA

"The most substantial landgraviate in Germany was Thuringia. Its rulers were powerful because of their immense dynastic inheritances which began to coalesce early in the twelfth century. Like the new margravial titles to Meissen and Brandenburg, their Thuringian landgraviate originated in a grant by Lothar III to one of his associates, Count Louis, in 1131. A previous Saxon landgrave, Hermann of Reinhaisen and Winzenburg, was deposed and imprisoned for homicide in 1130, but it was now thought that he was particularly connected with Thuringia, or that Count Louis was his direct successor... In 1150 Landgrave Louis II married Frederick Barbarossa's half-sister Judith, and the landgraves continued to stand right at the centre of imperial affairs. But under pressure from the papacy the last of them, Henry Raspe, betrayed the Staufen in 1246 and accepted the unenviable post of anti-king of Germany. His death in 1246 without direct heirs unleashed an intense feud over his vast lands. By 1263 the Brabantine claimants were recognized in their occupation of Hesse, the western portion of the landgraviate. Confirmed as landgraves of Hesse by a royal grant of 1292, they established one of the most ample principalities of late medieval Germany. Their rivals, the Wettin margraves of Meissen, were able to make good their claim to Thuringia propoer. Both houses continued to reign in these territories until 1918." (Arnold, p. 131)

THURN UND TAXIS

References
Miss Delite

TOGGENBURG

Coat of Arms

Rulers of Toggenburg
Counts of Toggenburg

TUBINGEN

Territorial Development & Dynastic History
1078: First mention of Tubingen when Emperor Heinrich IV besieged Tubingen castle
1148: Palatine County of Tubingen
1342: Palatine Counts of Tubingen were forced to sell Tubingen to the Count of Wurttemberg


Rulers of Tubingen
Tübingen
Anselm I, in Nagoldgau......................fl. c. 966
Hugo I......................................fl. c. 1007
Anselm II...................................fl. c. 1040
Hugo II of Gravenegg........................fl. c. 1057
Hugo III of Tübingen........................fl. c. 1078
Hugo IV......................................d. c. 1120
Hugo V (Co. Palatine of Tübingen 1146)........1125-1152
Friedrich.....................................1152-1162
Hugo II.......................................1152-1182
Rudolf I.....................................1182-1219

Tübingen-Asberg
1252-1283: Ulrich I
Ulrich III....................................1283-1308 d. 1341

Tübingen-Asberg und Geissen
Wilhelm I.......................................d. 1252

Tübingen-Böblingen
Rudolf IV....................................1252-1271
Godfrey I.....................................1271-1316
Wilhelm II....................................1316-1326 with...
Godfrey II....................................1316-1329 ?
Wilhelm III..................................d. c. 1346 with...
Godfrey III...................................1326-1369 and...
Heinrich Wilhelm...................................d. 1345
Konrad I......................................1369-1414
Konrad II.....................................1414-1449
Konrad III....................................1449-1477
Konrad IV.....................................1477-1500 with...
Georg I......................................1477-1507
Georg II.....................................1507-1536 with...
Konrad V......................................1507-1569
Georg III....................................1569-1570
Konrad VI.....................................1570-1600 with...
Alwig.........................................1570-1592 and...
Hermann........................................1570-1591 and...
Georg IV.....................................1570-1591 and...
Eberhard......................................1570-1608
Georg FrIedrich..............................1608-1622
Georg Eberhard...............................1622-1634

Tübingen-Herrenberg
Rudolf III the Black...........................d. 1277
Eberhard (in Tübingen to 1294)..................d. 1304 with...
Rudolf V (in Herrenberg).......................d. 1317
Konrad II.....................................1317-1376 with...
Rudolf VI....................................1317-1356 and then...
Ulrich........................................1356-1377 with...
Konrad III....................................1376-1382 d. 1391

Tübingen-Horb
Rudolf II......................................d. 1247
Partitioned between Tübingen-Horb and Tübingen-Herrenberg
Hugo IV......................................d. c. 1267
Hugo V..........................................d. 1277 with...
Otto............................................d. <>
Ludwig...........................................d. 1293
Tübingen-Tübingen
Hugo III....................................fl. c. 1216
Konrad I........................................d. <>
To Tübingen-Herrenberg

References
The Palatine Counts of Tubingen
Regnal Chronologies