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264. G E R M A N T, [Tettnang.
^he counts {j/' MoNTFORT on aceomit of the
Lordßjip of Tettnang.
§. I. ''"T^HE counts of Montfort take their title from the ruinated moun-
^ tain-caftle of the Tame naoie, fituated in the county of Feldkirch,
See Vol. IV. p. 240.
In the thirteenth century lived Rudolph Count of Moiitforf, whofe fons
Hugo, Rudolph, and Ulrich, founded three lines ; namely the firfl: that of
'Tettnang, the fecond that of Feldkirch, and the third that of BregeJiz.
The lalt of thefe failed in the year 1338, the fecond in 1390 in Count
Rudol'fh, who, in 1365, fold the county of Feldkirch ot Montfcrt to the
houfe of Auftria. The firfl: or Tettnarig line remaining, divided itfelf in
Hugos fons William and Henry into the collateral lines of Bregenz and 'TeUna?ig.
The latter failed about the middle of the fixteenth century, but
the former alienated the county of Bregenz. See Vol. IV. p. 239, together
with other lordfliips and eftates, which flill continue in the lordfliip of
'Teit/iancr.
§. 2. This lordfliip of Tettnang lies on the Bofidenfee, or lake of Coßanz,
between the diftriä: of AltorJ, the territories of the towns of Wangen and
Lindau, and the lordfliip of Wajferburg belonging to count Fugger, being
watered by the rivers Schufz and Arg.
§. 3. The title of the lord hereof of is Governing count of Montjort,
lord of Bregenz, Tettnang, and Argen. His arms are a banner ruby with
three rings topaz in a field pearl. His afleflrnent in the Imperial matricula
is two horfe and eleven foot, or fixty-eight florins, and his contingency to
the chamber of Wetzlar fixty-one ruthlers, twenty-eight kruitzers and
three quarters. He enjoys both feat and vote not only in the Imperial
Diet of the college of Swabian counts, but alfo in that of the circle of
S\vabia.
§. 4. The diftricts and principal places belonging to this lordfliip are the
following :
viz.
Tettnang, or Taftfiang, commonly called Teflang, a fmall town and
caftle, feated on the Muhlenbach, which runs into the Schujz.
2. The manor of Land-waibel in which is Thann a parochial village with
a convent in it belonging to the order of St. Paul the Herjnite.
Not far from this village is another convent of Hermites called Argenhart.
3. The manor of Hemmickhofen, to which belong the feats of Hemmickhofen
and Schleinfee or Schlifnjec, as alfo the pariflies of Gati7iau.
4. The manor of Langnau containing
Langnau,