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Furftenberg.] GERMANY, 231
Of the family of the Prince and Landgrave of
Fürsten BERG, and his territories in general.
§. I. 'T~^HE houfe of Furßenberg is one of the moft ancient and confider-
^ able in ^iWSwdbia, being derived ^xomEgeno, count oi Urach, who
fiounlhed in the thirteenth century. Count Frederick of Furßenberg, who
made grent additions to the territories of his family and lived in the fixteenth
century, left two fons, the counts Chrißopher and Joachim, who
gave rife to two feparatc lines ; viz,. Count Chrißopher to that of Kiiixingerthal,
which, exclufive of fomething confiderable in the Baar, obtained the
Kinzingerthal, Bkmberg, and fome other lordihips in the Schivarzisclde.
Chrißopher II. his grandfon, by his fon Count Albert, left two fons, who
were founders of two other particular lines. In Count Vatißa'u) II. commenced
that oi Aloßirch, which failed in the year 1744; and in Count Frederick
Rudolph the Stuhling line, which is ftill exifting. 'Joachim II. fon to
the above-mentioned Count Frederick, was founder of the H-iligenberg
line, which was continued by his fon Frederick, and in the perfons of his
fons Egon and Lewis, was again divided into the lines of Heiligenberg and
Donejching. The latter foon failed, but the former, in the year 1664, became
a Prince of the Empire; though, in 17 16, on the extindion of
the male defcendants thereof, their lands and the dignity of Prince devolved
to the above-mentioned Moskirch and Stuhling.
§. 2. Thus all the Furßenberg eftates efcheated to the line of Furßenberg-
Stuhling. The title of Prince is now only borne by the fovereign and his
prefumptive heir. The title of the reigning Prince runs thus; viz. Prince
of the holy Roman Empire, as alfo of Furßenberg, Landgrave of Baar and
Stuhlingen, count of Heiligenberg and Werdenberg, baron of Giindelfingeuy
lord of Haufen in the Kijizinger thai, Moskirch, Hohenhoven, Wildenßein,
Jungnau, Trochtelfingen, Waldsberg, Weytra, &c. The children and fiflers
ftyle themfelves Landgraves of Furjienberg, the Baar and Stuhlingcn.
Their coat of arms are a fhield topaz with a border nebuted pearls and faphire.
In the center lies the Furßenberg eagle, topaz, with the beak and
claws faphire ; on its breaft is a ihield quarterly. In the firft and fourth
quarters, in a field ruby, is a three pointed gonfalon, or banner, decorated
pearl, for Werdenberg ; and in the fecond and third quarters, in a field pearl
for Heiligenberg,
a bend diamond.
§. 3. The above-mentioned title of the Prince {hews the territories belonging
to the houfe of Furßenberg ; and the lordfhip of Weytra excepted,
which lies in the Lower-Außria, they are all in the circle of Sivabia, and thus
the Prince is entitled to fix votes in the Diet of the circle j viz. two among
the