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Limburg.] GERMANY, .503
the feigniory of Seinjheimy the county of Caßell and the bifliopric of
JVurzburg. In length above two German miles, and between one and
one and a quarter broad. Through the former runs the river Kocher,
which in it receives the rivulets and brooks of Roth, Eisbach, Egelfbach,
&c. having their rife therein. The rivulet of Buhler alfo rifes in this
feigniory.
§. 3. The ancient Lords, but afterwards the Counts, of Limburg, who
were the hereditary cup-bearers of the holy Roman Empire, and always
free, divided themfelves into two principal lines; namely, into thefe of
Speckfeld and Gaildorf, The latter became extindf in its male-heirs in the
year 1690, and the former in 171 3, in the perfon of Count Volrath. The
- c\Q.&.oi2\-\\o\x'iQ, o{ Brandenburg, in the year 1693, caufed the exped:ancy
of the Imperial fiefs of Limburg to be conferred on itfelf by the Emperor
Leopold, which expedancy the Emperor yc/t'/»^, in 1706, and the Emperor
Charles VI. in 171 2, thought fit to ratify. The lad Count of Limburg
therefore dying in the year 1713, the King of Prußa took poirefiion of
his country, but at length ceded it to the allodial heirs, and the Emperor
fequeflrated the Imperial fiefs, but, in 1728, conferred the inveftiture of them
on King Frederick William, as Imperial Sub-vafial. In the year 1742,
King Frederick II. transferred thefe Limburg Imperial fiefs to the princely
houfe of Brandenburg-Ondzbach ; which tranflation was approved of by
the Emperor Charles Yl\. m the year 1744. In 1746, the Mar2;grave
Charles William Frederick of Brandcnburg-Onolzbach determined at length,
by an agreement, the tedious difputes with the allodial heirs oi Limburg,
which agreement was alfo appproved of by the King of Prufjia as well as
by the Marggrave of Brandenburg-Culmhach, and, in 1748, interchnnged
and ratified. By virtue of this agreement the allodial heirs ceded to Brandenburg-Onolzbach,
(i.) three quarters in the circle-voice of Limburg-
Gaildorf-Schmidelfeld ; in confequence of which the princely-houfe of
Onolzbach took upon itfelf the payment of feven florins of the fingle
tax of the Empire and Circle. (2.) The whole of the military feodal-court
oi Limburg, or the noble vaffals and occupiers of military fiefs, who were
allied
to the whole houfe o^ Limburg by homage, together with the inveftiture
of all feodal eftates, parts, rights and dependencies which they were
poflefied of, without exception, and particularly the fhare which was to
fall to the pofterity of Solms-Rodelheim and Saxe-Gctha-RoJa, who derived
their delcent from the Countefs Juliana Dorothea, confort to Wurmbrand
and Countefs by birth of Limburg-Gaildorf, all fuch vaflals and feoffees,
(3.) The fingle fubjedts lying near and commodious to both the Onolzbach
upi-)ev-pvefe