County of Katzenelnbogen
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The County of Katzenelnbogen was an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed between 1095 and 1479, when it was inherited by the Landgraves of Hesse.
Immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire
County of Katzenelnbogen Grafschaft Katzenelnbogen | |||||||||
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| 1095–1479 | |||||||||
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The County of Katzenelnbogen shown on an early 18th-century map | |||||||||
| Status | County | ||||||||
| Capital | Katzenelnbogen | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Government | County | ||||||||
| Count | |||||||||
• 1095 (first) | Dieter I | ||||||||
• 1444–79 (last) | Philip I | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• First mentioned | 1095 | ||||||||
• County | 1138 | ||||||||
| 1479 | |||||||||
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The estate comprised two separate territories. The main parts were the original Untergrafschaft ("lower county") with its capital at Katzenelnbogen in the Middle Rhine area and the Obergrafschaft ("upper county") south of the Main River around Darmstadt, predecessor of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt.