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FURSTENBERG , the name of two See also:

noble houses of See also:Germany. r. The more important is in See also:possession of a mediatized principality in the See also:district of the See also:Black See also:Forest and the Upper See also:Danube, which comprises the countship of Heiligenberg, about 7 M. to the N. of the See also:Lake of See also:Constance, the landgraviates of Stiihlingen and Haar, and the lordships of Jungnau, Trochtelfingen, Hausen and Moskirch or Messkirch. The territory is discontinuous; and as it lies partly in See also:Baden, partly in See also:Wurttemberg, and partly in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Sigmaringen, the See also:head of the See also:family is an hereditary member of the first chamber of Baden and of the chamber of peers in Wurttemberg and in See also:Prussia. The relations of the principality with Baden are defined by the treaty of May 1825, and its relations with Wurttemberg by the royal See also:declaration of 1839. The Stammort or ancestral seat of the family is Furstenberg in the Black Forest, about 13 M. N. of See also:Schaffhausen, b11t the See also:principal See also:residence of the See also:present representatives of the See also:main See also:line is at Donaueschingen. The family of Furstenberg claims descent from a certain See also:Count Unruoch, a contemporary of See also:Charlemagne, but their See also:authentic See also:pedigree is only traceable to Egino II., count of Urach, who died before 1136. In 1218 his successors inherited the possessions of the See also:house of See also:Zahringen in the Baar district of the Black Forest, where they built the See also:town and See also:castle of Furstenberg. Of the two sons of Egino V. of Urach, See also:Conrad, the See also:elder, inherited the See also:Breisgau and founded the line of the See also:counts of See also:Freiburg, while the younger, Heinrich (1215—1284), received the territories lying in the Kinzigthal and Baar, and from 1250 onward styled himself first See also:lord, then count, of Furstenberg. His territories were subsequently divided among several branches of his descendants, though temporarily re-See also:united under Count See also:Friedrich III., whose wife, See also:Anna, heiress of the last count of Wardenberg, brought him the countship of Heiligenberg and lordships of Jungnau'and Trochtelfingen in 1534• On Friedrich's See also:death (1559) his territories were divided between his two sons, See also:Joachim and Christof I. Of these the former founded the line of Heiligenberg, the latter that of Kinzigthal.

The Kinzigthal See also:

branch was again subdivided in the 17th See also:century between the two sons of Christof II. (d. 1614), the elder, Wratislaw II. (d. 1642), See also:founding the line of Mosskirch, the younger, Friedrich See also:Rudolf (d. 1655), that of Stuhlingen. The Heiligenberg branch received an See also:accession of dignity by the See also:elevation of Count See also:Hermann Egon (d. 1674) to the See also:rank of See also:prince of the See also:Empire in 1664, but his line became See also:extinct with the death of his son Prince Anton Egon, favourite of See also:King See also:Augustus the Strong and See also:regent of See also:Saxony, in 1716. The heads of both the Mosskirch and Stuhlingen lines .were now raised to the dignity of princes of the Empire (1716). The Mosskirch branch died out with Prince Karl Friedrich (d. 1744); the territories of the Stuhlingen branch had been divided on the death of Count Prosper See also:Ferdinand (1662—1704) between his two sons, See also:Joseph Wilhelm See also:Ernst (1699—1762) and See also:Ludwig See also:August Egon (1705—1759). The first of these was created prince of the Empire on the loth of See also:December 1716, and founded the princely line of the Swabian Furstenbergs; in 1772 he obtained from the See also:emperor See also:Francis I. for all his legitimate sons and their descend-ants the right to See also:bear, instead of the See also:style of See also:landgrave, that of prince, which had so far been confined to the reigning head of the family.

Ludwig, on the other See also:

hand, founded the family of the landgraves of Furstenberg, who, since their territories See also:lay in See also:Austria and See also:Moravia, were known as the " See also:cadet line in Austria." The princely line became extinct with the death of Karl Joachim in 1804, and the See also:inheritance passed to the Bohemian branch of the See also:Austrian cadet line in the See also:person of Karl Egon II. (see below). Two years later the principality was mediatized. In 1909 there were two branches of the princely house of Furstenberg: (i) the main branch, that of Furstenberg-Donaueschingen, the head of which was Prince See also:Maximilian Egon (b. 1863), who succeeded his See also:cousin Karl Egon .III. in 1896; (2) that of Furstenberg-Kbnigshof, in Bohemia, the head of which was Prince Emil Egon (b. 1876), See also:chamberlain and secretary of See also:legation to the Austro-Hungarian See also:embassy in See also:London (1907). The cadet line of the landgraves of Furstenberg is now extinct, its last representative having been the landgrave Joseph Friedrich Ernst of Furstenberg-Weitra (1860—1896), son of the landgrave Ernst (1816—1889) by a morganatic See also:marriage. He was not recognized as ebenburlig by the family. The landgraves of Furstenberg were in 1909 represented only by the landgravines See also:Theresa (b. 1839) and Gabrielle (b. 1844), daughters of the landgrave Johann Egon (1802-1879). From the days, of Heinrich of Urach, a relative and notable supporter of See also:Rudolph of See also:Habsburg, the Furstenbergs have played a stirring See also:part in See also:German See also:history as statesmen, ecclesiastics and notably soldiers.

There was a popular saying that " the emperor fights no See also:

great See also:battle but a Furstenberg falls." In the Heiligenberg line the following may be more particularly noticed.

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