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Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a county in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its name derives from the castle of Hohenloch near Uffenheim in Mittelfranken, which came into the possession of the descendants of Conrad of Weikersheim by 1178. Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was partitioned from the lands held by the descendants of Kraft of Hohenlohe, who was made an Imperial count in 1450. The Hohenlohe territories were divided between the brothers Count Ludwig Kasimir (d.1517-1568) (of the senior Neunstein line, progenitors of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Hohenlohe-Oehringen branches) and Count Eberhard (1535-1570), founder of the various Hohenlohe-Waldenburg branches. The Schillingsfürst line descends from Count Ludwig Gustav (1634-1697), whose descendant Philipp obtained the erection of his fiefs into a principality within the Holy Roman Empire, enjoying Imperial immediacy, in 1744. The county of Waldenburg was added to the principality in 1757. It was mediatised to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806.
Three branches are extant; those of Waldenburg, Ratibor and Corvey, and Schillingsfürst. The members of the house bear the style of "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst" or "Prince/Princess von Ratibor und Corvey, Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst" or "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, von Ratibor und Corvey" or Prince/Princess von Ratibor und Corvey" or "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, von Ratibor und Corvey" depending upon which of the four sub-lines of the Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst branch to which they belong.