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HohenloKe.] GERMANY. 479
and the Tauber^ in that traft where the citadels of Hohefiloch, Brauneck and
Spcckfeldt-, and the fort of Bernheim lie. The third fon of this laft, viz.
Hermann Count of Eqjl-Franconia, who lived towards the clofe of the
tenth, and in the beginning of the eleventh century, was poll'elTed in the
dutchy of Franconia principally of a fliare in the countries on the Tauber y
y^igfl, and Kocher, of which the county of Hohenlohe at this very day conlifts.
His great reputation appears from hence, namely that he had for
his confort in his fecond marriage the mother of the Emperor ConraJus Sa~
licus. But that Princefs being his afTigned father's brother's widow, and
fuch marriages being at that time with difficulty allowed ; we fhould vvitli
ftill greater probability derive this Count Hermann, to whom all the Counts
of Hohenlohe owe their original, from Duke Eberhard of Franconia, brother
to King Conrad I. as the folidly learned Mr. Counfellor Chrijiian Ludwig
maintains we ought to do. Be this as it will, Sicgjreid the eldeft foa
of this Count Hermann founded the old extindt line of Hohenlohe at
Weickerßjeim, and from the fecond fon Eberhard, who refided at the citadel
of Hohenloch, is defcended the prefent houfe of Hohenlohe. Ulrich and
Godfrey, fons to the latter, and who lived in the twelfth century, feem firft
to have ftiled themfelves from the citadel of Hohenloch. Ulrich had his refidence
at Uff'enheim, and probably from him defcended the Dynajlce of
Uffenheim and Speckfeld, who occur till the clofe of the thirteenth century.
Count Godfrey is the firfi: known Burggrave of Nürnberg. Frederick the
Elder, grandfon to this laft, had in his fon Conrad two fons, named
Godfrey and Conrad, who fhared the lands oi Hohenlohe among them. Conrad
the younger fixed his refidence at the caftle of Brauneck, there founding
a peculiar line ; but the elder Count, named Godfrey, retained his refidence
at the' caftle o( Hohenloch. From Albrecht, eldeft fon to the latter,
is defcended the line oi Speckfeld, which became extindl in 141 2 ; and the
fecond fon, Crato, or Craft I, propagated the ftill flourKhing houfe,
George his grandfon in the fifth generation, and who died in 1551, is
the general ftem-father to the prefent Counts ; his fon by his firft wife,
namely Lewis Cafimir, founding the principal line of Neiienßein , and his
fon, by a fecond venter, named Eberhard, founding the principal line of
JValdefiburg.
The capital line of Neuenßein divided itfelf in the following minner
fiz. of Craft and Philip Erneß, grandfons to their founder, the former
retained his feat of Neuejißein, and of his grandfons, the Counts Charles^
Lewis and John Frederick, the firft refided at Weickerß?eim, and the latter
il Oehringen ; but the former dying in 1756, his fhare upon that fell tO'
the latter. Count Philip Erneß began the line of Lan^enburg, which'
in his grandfons was divided in fuch a manner that Count Albrecht Wolf-'
gang founded the Larjgenburg line s Count Chrißian Craft that of Tngelßng,.
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