County of Rieneck
Bailiwick of the Archbishopric of Mainz; Lordship (County) of Rieneck Vogtei des Mainzer Erzstift; Herrschaft (Grafschaft) Rieneck | |||||||||
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| before 1100–1559 1673–1806 | |||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Lohr | ||||||||
| Government | County | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• First mention of Rieneck | c. 790 | ||||||||
• County established | before 1100 | ||||||||
• Court of Louis I, Count of Loon | from 1168 | ||||||||
| 1333 | |||||||||
• Comital line extinct | 1559 | ||||||||
• Purchased by Count of Nostitz | 1673 | ||||||||
| 1806 | |||||||||
• Granted to Bavaria | 1815 | ||||||||
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The County of Rieneck was a comital domain within the Holy Roman Empire that lay in what is now northwestern Bavaria (in the west of Lower Franconia). It bore the same name as its original ruling family, the Counts of Rieneck, from whom the county and its main seat, the town of Rieneck, got their names.