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Konig/egg.] GERMANY. 269
II. The county of Friedberg, alfo purchafed of the houfe of Außria in
the year 1463. In it is
Friedberg, a caftle, fituate betwixt the Aiiflrian towns of Mengen and
Saulgeti.
III. The lordfliip of Durmeting, or Durmentingen., fituate on the river
Kanzach, which ilTues out of the Federjee and runs into the Danube. In
is the market-town of the fame name.
it
IV. The lordfliip of Bufz, which like the former lies on the other fide
of the Kanzach, and is
a mortgage of the houfe oi Außria to xheTruchfeJzes.
Exclufive of the caflle of the fame name this lordfliip contains in it five
other places.
V. The village of Retiartpweiler, fituate betwixt Saulgen and Aulendorf.
The Li?ie of Trauchburg.
The count of which ftiles hlmfelf hereditary fteward of the facred Roman
Empire, count of T'rauchburg and Friedberg, baron of JValdbunr,
lord oiKi/zlegg, Herroth, Neidegg, Scheer, Durnwitingen and Biijfen. His
lands are
I. The county of Trauchburg lying betwixt the abbey of Kempten and
which belonged formerly to the family of Voringen^
tlie lordfliip of Egloff,
of whom the Truchfezßs purchafed it in the year 1309.
The caftle of Trauchburg, with the village of Weilen, which is fubjecH:
to it, is an Außrian fief.
Neidegg, or Ncideck, a caftle.
II. A part of the before-mentioned lordfliip o( Kifzlegg.
III. The lordfliip of Herroth, fituate betwixt the lordfliip of Kiß::/egg
and the Leutkircher heath.
Obf. In the Imperial town of T/w is an abbey of BenediSline monks,
of which the Truchfcfzes are patrons, defenders, and adminiftrators.
Of the Counts of Königs egg and the Territories
in the Circle of Swabi a.
'T~^HE family of the lords of Königfeck is of very great antiquity, and in
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Hugh and John George, fons to George, baron of Konigfeck, was divided
into two linesj the former commencing in that of Rothejfels, and the latter
being the founder of the line of Aulendorf, both which were by the Emperor
Ferdinand II. raifed to the dignity of counts of the Empire. The title of
each