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488 GERMANY. [Caftell.
Caßcll In the Nordgau, from whom the row extind Counts of Sulzbach
derived their defcent. In the thirteenth cenmry the houfe of Caflell divided
itfelf into three branches. The firft of thefe branches fprung from
Count Henry II. and became extindt in his fons ; the fecond arofe from
Count Hermann III. and ended in his grandfonsj and the third from Count
FrederickW. who has propagated that line. Conrad III. and George III.
fons to Count Wolfgang., who confiderably improved the county and died
in the year 1546, divided it, in confequence of 'heir father's will, into two
equal (hares. Their brother, Henry V. who at firft was an ecclefiaftic,
obtained of his brother George, after the death of Conrad, one half of his
faid brother's fliare, and both of them entered into an agreement, in the
year 1586, on account of the divifion of the county. WolfgahgNY. fon to
Count George III. who founded the principal line ofRemlingen, had for his
fucceflbr Wolfgang George, who divided his feigniory in fuch a manner that
his eldefl fon, Wolfgang Theodorick, had his feat at Caflell, and Frederick Magnus,
the younger fon, his at Remlingen. Godfrey II. fon to Count G^örg-^ III.
founded the principal
line of Rudenhaufen.
§.3. This county is at prefent, for the moft part, a fief of Wiirzbiirg,
but the Counts enjoy alfo their own confiderable feodal-court ; in matters
relating to which they do not regulate themfelves by the biOiop's feodal-court,
but by the rights commonly prefcribed. Ever fince the year 1168, they
have been hereditary cup-bearers to the billiopric of Wurzbarg. By virtue
of the hereditary union entered into, in the year 1560, between Count
Conrad III. Henry V. and George 111. which was afterwards confirmed by
the Emperors Ferdinand I. in 1562, and by Maximillianll. in 1566, each
particular fenior of the whole family is at the fame time adminiftrator of
the feodal feignories of the whole houfe, and is inverted only with the ofiice
of hereditary cup-bearer by the bilhopric of Wurzburg.
§. 4. The arms of the Counts oiCaßell are a fhield quarterly ^»Zfj and
argent,
§. 5. At the Diet of the Empire they are pofl^efled of two voices in the
college of the Imperial Counts of Franconia ; and in the circle of Franconta
they enjoy feat and voice betwixt Hohetilohe and Wertheim. Their matricular-evaluation
to the Empire and Circle, fince the year 1678, has been
only eighteen florins ; that is to fay, on account of Caßell four florins,
thirty kruitzers ; on account of Remlingen the like fum 3 and on account of
Rudenhaufen, nine florins.
jixdollars,
To each chamber-term this county pays eighteen
eighty-four kruitzers and a half.
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