Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was a county and later a principality in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the historical territory of Heiligenberg. It was created as a partition of Fürstenberg-Baar in 1559, and it suffered one partition between itself and Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen in 1617.
When Herman Egon of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was elevated to the estate of imperial princes (Reichsfürstenstand) in 1664, Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was raised to a principality and existed as an imperially immediate territory. It inherited Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen in 1698, but following the extinction of its branch in 1716, it was inherited by Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg.
Counts of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1559–1664)
- Joachim, 1559–1598[1]
- Frederick IV, 1598–1617[2]
- William II, 1617–1618
- Egon VIII, 1618–1635[3]
- Co-rulers:
- Ernst Egon, 1635–1652
- Ferdinand Frederick Egon, 1635–1662
- Herman Egon, 1635–1664
Princes of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1664–1716)
- Herman Egon, 1664–1674
- Anton Egon, 1674–1716
Herman Egon's two surviving brothers, Francis Egon and Wilhelm Egon, were also titular Princes of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, but they never ruled the principality.
References
Bibliography
- Ersch, Johann Samuel (1850). "Fürstenberg". Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer Folge (in German). 51. Leipzig: Brockhaus.