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138 GERMANY. [Falkenaem.
Pkilip XI. whom the Emperor Wenccßaiis had before, namely, m the year
created a count, and who was the firfl and lall: of his family who bore
1
397,
that title. On his deceafe, in 1410, he was fucceedcd by Warner, youngcll:
brother to Philip X. and archbifliop of T'rier ; and from him the Falkenßcin
eftate defcended to the fifters children of Philip X. Thefe fifters were-
Luitgard, married to Eberhard, lord of Epßein ; und y4gJ7es, fpoufe to 0//^«?,
Count Solf?7s, by whom fhe had two daughters, one of whom was married
to Rupert, count of Virnehurg, whofe grandfon, William, took the name
of Falkenßein ; and in him commenced the feccnd branch of that family,
Margaret, one of his daughters, was married to Melchicr, lord oi Dhau7i -y
and the other, called Margaret, to Cuno, count of Manderjcheid. Wirichy
fon to the former, had three fons ; namely, Philip, "John and Sehaftiajj.
From yohn was originated the third Falkenßein line, and liis daughter,
Sidonia, \vho(ehn{h^r\d vids Axel Loivenhanpt, in the year 1579, renounced
her father's inheritance ; and her brother Emich, lord of Daun, having
no iflue, nom.inated for heirs the Sebaßian line abovementioned ; and on its
failure, that of Philip, who fuccelTively became proprietors of the county of
Falkenjtein ; but, on its defcent to William Wirich, of the laft line, he (old
it, in the year 1667, to Charles III. duke oi Lorrain, who beftowed it on
Prince Charles Hmry of Vaudcmont ; on v/hofe deceafe, Leopold Joßph
Charles, duke of Lorrain, put in his claim to it againfl: the houfes of Loivenhaupt
and Manderfcheid ; but, in the years 1724 and 1727, they came to
an agreement. In the year 173 i, the whole county, without any referve, was
adjudged by the Aulic Council, to his fon Duke Francis Stephen, afterwards
Emperor ; and, though in the years 1735 and 1736, he ceded the dutchy
of Lorrain to France, yet it was with refervation of the county of Falken-'
ßtcin, and he compromifed matters with theboufesof Loww^/j^z^/i/ 2i.r\d Manderfcheid.
§. 3. The arms of this county are a wheel. In the matricula of the Empire
it is aflelTed at two horfe and four foot, or forty florins per month j and
to the chamber at
Wetzlar it pays fifteen rixdoUars, fixty-feven kruitzers and
a half. The prefent Emperor, by virtue of this county, votes in the college
of Princes as Margrave of Nomeny-j and likewife in the Diet of the Circle of
the Upper-Rhine.
§. 4. To this county belong the following places ; viz.
Falkeuftein, a little town, lying below the caftle, and whence this name
but now fallen to ruins,
Winweilr, a little town, containing a caftle, and being the feat of an
is derived,
upper preft iturate. In its neighbourhood is a line lake.
Imsbach-Alzenborny St. Alban, Dill-Kirchen and LiOwer-KIrchen, all
villages.
A part of t;ie church- village of Steinbach,
The villages of Jaxwciler and UpperSulze, otherv/ife Sulzheim,
not far
from