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i24. The prefedturate of Battenberg. In it
Battenberg-, a very old town on the x\vtxEder, which has frequently fuffered
by fire, particularly in the year 1653, when it was almoft totally deftroyed.
This place was formerly the refidence of the counts of Batteriberg.
Hatzfild, a very ancient but faiall town feated on the Eder, its cafllc
the patrimonial feat of the family of Hatzfeld.
Lcyja, a village, alfo very ancient, and noted for the fignal defeat of the
Saxons there in the year 779 by the Franks. In this country formerly flood.
The Gnu of Ließ, Libe/r, or Lihofi.
Battenfeld.,
and eight other villages.
25. The Lordfliip of Itter lies on the river Eder in the Itfer Gau (the
Pagus Nitberfis, or Nither/es of the ancients) being principally environed by
the territories oi PFaldeck, but in fome parts borders on thofe oiH^ffe-CaJjel.
This lordßiip receives its name from the river Itter, which iffuing from
Enfe, or according to others from Corhach in the country of Weldcck, falls
into the Eder near Herzbaitfen. It is in moft parts mountainous, but yet
not unfruitful ; enjoying alfo plenty of wood, game, {heep, and fiiL, and
having in particular a very profitable copper-mine. The origin of the an-
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cient Dynajla oi Itter is obfcure. The moft ancient of them yet known is
Folcmar earl oi Itter, who lived about the year 1120. In the 14th century
this lordiliip was divided betwixt the brothers Heynemann III. and Adolphus,
who renewed their alliance with the principality of He£e, and placed them-
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felves together with their caflles and lord(hips w-holly under the protedion
thereof, in the very fame manner with the caflles and eftates properly belonging
thereto,
by which means they became States and Dennifons of that
Principality.
On the deceafe of Heynemann III. his widow Margaret with her daughter
Cunigiinda, in the year 1357, fold one half of her hufband's part of the
lordihip of Itter to Henry, I>andgrave oi Hejfe, for nine hundred marks of
filver ; and at the fame time made a formal renunciation of that part which
had belonged to her deceafed hufband's brother Adolphus oi Itter ; the other
half of the fhare of Heynemann fhe alfo difpofed of the very fame year for
nine hundred marks of filver to Gerlach archbifliop of Mentz,. The laft
male of the Itter line, and probably a grandfen of the faid Adolphus, was
Erafmus, who died in the year 1443. The Elector oi Mentz did not long
retain his fhare of Itter, mortgaging it in 1359, to Otho count oi Waldeck
and his fon Henry; but the houfe of Waldeck likewife under-mortgaged it
to the Wolfs of Gudenberg, into whofe hands, in the fame manner, came
alfo the Heßian fliare in the year 13B3. Thus they had pofi"ellion of both
parts till the i6th century, when in the year 1542, the fliare belonging to
the Eleclorate of Mentz was redeemed by the counts of Waldeck, and in the
year 1562, that oi HeJfe by its Landgrave. In 1586, the Eledlor oi Mentz
alfo fignified to the counts of Waldeck his intention of redeeming his fhare,
vfhich was accordingly done in the year i j88 j
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but the Landgrave Lewis of
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Marburg