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Werthelm.] G E R M A N 7\ 491
and afterwards, namely in 1594, to Wiliiam, Baron of Krichingen. His
third daughter, Ainic, confort to Count Lewis of Loivenflcin, was palled
over in the capitulation ; notwithftanding which the father ordered in 1566
that all his daughters fliould make the beft of, enjoy and pofTefs his allotted
counties and feigniories, to be held in equal fliares by them and their pofterity
: Which p;Uernal ordination the three KGnigßein husbands to tliefe
daughters, namely the Counts of Eberßehi^ Manderfcheidt, and Loiocnflein^
folemnly accepted and confirmed. But Count Lewis of Stolberg and Kofiigßein
dying in 1574, Count Lewis of Lo%üe?ißein in his own name, and
that of his lady and male-heirs, in conjundtion with both his brothers-inlaw
Ei^^'/y?«'« and Mdmkrfcbeit, took pofleilion of the county. In 1576
thefe three fliarers came to an agreement relating to the government thereof
in common. But the fecond Konigßei?2 heirefs, being married in 1594 to
JVilliat}!, Baron of Krichingen^ this Jaft fought to annull the father's ordination,
for which reafon Lowe?ißein refufed to admit him into the partnerfliip.
It is true, that in 1596 they came to a previous agreement, but that
agreement was not adhered to ; fo far from it that this fecond fifter, who
was married to the Baron of Krichiiigen, after the death of her eidefl fifter,
caufed Julius bifliop of Wiirzburg, in the name of the Wurxburg inveftiture,
and under a pretence that Anne, Countefs of Lowenflein, was incapable
thereof, to deprive the latter and her hufband in 1598, by force of
arms, of the greateft part of the county of Wertheim. But at laft the
Lowenßein houfe arrived to the quiet poiTelTion of their fliare of the county,
which it ftill retains.
The origin, hiftory, and divifion of the Lowenßein or Lowenßein-Wer~
theim houfe has been fhortly defcribed above under Schwarzenberg and
Hohe?ilohe.
§. 3. The arms for the county of Wcrtheim are a crefcent eagle fable, in
a field Or, and on account o{ Breiiberg two ^Q^t% gides, in a i\Q\A argent.
§.4. At the Diet of the Empire the Princes and Counts of Lowenßein-
JVertheim are poflelfed on account of this county of two voices in the Franconian
college of Counts j but the princely line refufes any longer to adhere
to it. At the circle of Franconia they enjoy both feat and voice betwixt
Caßell and Rieneck. To a fingle Roman month eacli of the two principal
lines contributes twenty-fix florins, thirty kruitzers, and to a chamberterm
both unitedly pay eighty-fix rixdoUars, fifty-one kruitzers.
§. 5. The proprietors of the county of Werthcim are hereditary chamberlains
of the bifhopric of IFurzburg. Their under-chamberlains have
been from time of old
the Zobels of Gibellladt.
§. 6. A confiderable part of the county of Wertheim, the biiliopric of
Wurzburg, on the extindion of the old Counts, brought to itfelf, and a fmall
fhare thereof is likewife come to the Counts oi Caßell. The rell: the Princes
and Counts of Lowenßein-Wertheim pofi"efs ; but as I am not able juftlyt
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