Sayn
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Today part of | Germany |
Sayn was a small German county of the Holy Roman Empire which, during the Middle Ages, existed within what is today Rheinland-Pfalz.
There have been two Counties of Sayn. The first emerged in 1139 and became closely associated with the
Henry II was notable for being accused of satanic orgies by the Church's German Grand Inquisitor, Conrad von Marburg, in 1233. Henry was acquitted by an assembly of bishops in Mainz, but Conrad refused to accept the verdict and left Mainz. It is unknown whether it was Henry's Knights who killed Conrad on his return to Thuringia, but investigation was foregone due to the cruelty of Conrad, despite Pope Gregory IX ordering his murderers to be punished. With the death of Henry in 1246, the County passed to the Counts of Sponheim-Eberstein and thence to Sponheim-Sayn
in 1261.
The second County of Sayn emerged as a partition of Sponheim-Sayn in 1283 (the other partition being
Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn-Altenkirchen and Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg
.
Counts of Sayn (1139–1246)
- Eberhard I (1139–76)
- Henry I/II (1176–1203) with…
- Eberhard II (1176–1202) with…
- Henry II/III(1202–46)
- Godfrey II/III, Count of Sponheim (Regent, 1181–1220)
- John I, Count of Sponheim-Starkenburg(Regent, 1226–1246)
- Mechtilde (fl. 1278-1282)[1]
Counts of Sayn (1283–1608)
- John I (1283–1324)
- John II (1324–59)
- John III (1359–1403)
- Gerard I (1403–19)
- Theodore (1419–52)
- Gerard II (1452–93)
- Gerard III (1493–1506) with…
- Sebastian I (1493–98) with…
- John IV (1498–1529)
- John V (1529–60) with…
- Sebastian II (1529–73) with…
- Adolph (1560–68) with…
- Henry IV (1560–1606) with…
- Herman (1560–71)
- Anna Elizabeth (1606–08)
See also
- Sayn-Homburg
- Sayn-Wittgenstein
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Karlsburg
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn-Altenkirchen
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar
- Sponheim-Sayn
References
- ^ Hennes, Johann Heinrich (1845). Codex Diplomaticus Ordinis Sanctae Mariae Theutonicorum: Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens, insbesondre der Ballei Coblenz. Mainz: Franz Kirchheim. pp. charters 265, 284.