Pappenheim (state)
Lordship (County) of Pappenheim Herrschaft (Grafschaft) Pappenheim | |||||||||
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| 1030–1806 | |||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Pappenheim | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Lordship founded | ca 1030 | ||||||||
• Partitioned in four | 1439 | ||||||||
• Partitioned in twain | 1558 | ||||||||
• Raised to county | 1628 | ||||||||
1629 | |||||||||
| 1806 | |||||||||
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Pappenheim was a German county in western Bavaria, Germany, located on the Altmühl river between Treuchtlingen and Solnhofen, and south of Weißenburg. As former sovereign family, mediatized to Bavaria in 1806, the family which ruled the state belongs to High nobility.