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- The House of Oettingen was a high-ranking noble Franconian and Swabian family. It ruled various estates that composed the County of Oettingen between the 12th century and the beginning of the 19th century. In 1674 the house was raised to the rank of prince for the first time.
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The Oettingen family traces its descent back to Fridericus comes, documented in 987, and his father Sieghard V. ( Sigehardus comes in pago Riezzin, 'Sieghard, Count in Riesgau') from the Sieghardinger family, documented in 1007. These are also considered to be the ancestors of the Staufers .
The House of Hohenzollern (/ ˌ h oʊ ə n ˈ z ɒ l ər n /, US also /-n ˈ z ɔː l-,-n t ˈ s ɔː l-/; German: Haus Hohenzollern, pronounced [ˌhaʊs hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ; Romanian: Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German ...
Graf Ludwig XV. zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (1486–1557) • FamilySearch. Brief Life History of Ludwig XV. When Graf Ludwig XV. zu Oettingen-Wallerstein was born on 26 April 1486, in Schwaben, Kelheim, Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Count Wolfgang Von Oettingen-Oettingen, was 30 and his mother, Anna Truchsessin von Waldburg, was 26.
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THE PRINCELY FAMILY. The history of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein goes back about 900 years, and the House of Wallerstein is one of the oldest remaining high nobilities in Europe. Wallerstein has been the ruling and ancestral seat of the dynasty since the 17th century.
Article History. Also called: house of Anjou or Angevin dynasty. House of Plantagenet. house of Plantagenet, royal house of England, which reigned from 1154 to 1485 and provided 14 kings, 6 of whom belonged to the cadet houses of Lancaster and York.
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The Rothschild family (/ ˈ r ɒ θ (s) tʃ aɪ l d / ROTH(S)-chylde German: [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt]) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s.
Oettingen was the capital of the rival duchies of Oettingen-Spielberg and Oettingen Wallerstein and had two synagogues (a "Catholic" and a "Lutheran" one, so named after the two branches of the Oettingen ruling house) and separate district rabbinates and communal organizations.
