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Rechberg and Rothenlöwen

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Capital
  
Unknown

Historical era
  
Middle Ages

Date dissolved
  
1806

Government
  
Principality

Preceded by
  
Succeeded by

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Established
  
before 1206 12th century

Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was a country in the Holy Roman Empire. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was a renaming of Osterberg, and it inherited Osterberg in 1767. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was mediatised to Württemberg in 1806. The family of the Grafen von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen would be an important one in the 19th century. Aloys was a prominent Bavarian statesman, while his son Johann Bernhard, would enter the Austrian diplomatic service and rise eventually to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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Rechberg and Rothenlöwen Wikipedia