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County of Veldenz
Origins
The counts of Veldenz appear around 1112 as a branch of the Nahegau counts, taking their name from Veldenz castle above the Moselle near Bernkastel. Their lands lay scattered in the Hunsrück, along the Moselle and in the western Palatinate around Meisenheim and Lauterecken.
Rule and society
The county was modest in size, living from vineyards and farming in the hill country, and was held as a fief of the Bishopric of Verdun. A second line of counts from the Geroldseck family ruled from 1259. In 1437 the counts also inherited part of the County of Sponheim.
Decline and legacy
Count Frederick III died in 1444 without sons; his daughter Anna had married Stephen, son of King Rupert of the Palatinate. Their heirs formed the house of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, ancestors of the later kings of Bavaria and of Sweden's Charles X.
Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.
Lineage
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- County of Veldenz was part of Holy Roman Empire1112 CE – 1444 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). County of Veldenz. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-veldenz
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- “County of Veldenz.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-veldenz. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “County of Veldenz.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-veldenz.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘County of Veldenz’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-veldenz (Accessed: ).
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