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Thuringian Counts' War

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172:). However, after the counts' war they could not further expand their territories, but were restricted to their homelands and therefore no longer in a position to threaten the dominance of the Wettins in Thuringia. For the counts of Weimar-Orlamünde the result of the war meant the end of their imperial immediacy. A short while later, 143:
By 14 December 1342 the first peace treaty, brokered by the Emperor, was signed. Because the counts and advocates were bound to pay a very high sum - 338,000 Marks of Erfurt silver - for "breaking the peace", however, the peace did not hold and fighting soon flared up again. Frederick now sought to
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The outcome of the comital war strengthened the position of the Wettins in Thuringia, although were unable to finally drive the Schwarzburgs and the advocates out of Thuringia and these vassals continued to play an important role until the end of the monarchy in Thuringia in 1918 (c.f.
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weaken the opposing allies by agreeing separate treaties with his enemies: first on 6 September 1343 with the advocates of Gera and Plauen, on 28 July 1345 with the Schwarzburgs, and finally on 11 April 1346 in the
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Beiträge zur thüringischen und sächsischen Geschichte. Festschrift für Otto Dobenecker zum 70. Geburtstag am 2. April 1929
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which effectively allied them against Frederick the Serious. The parties to the alliance included the counts of
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with the Count of Weimar-Orlamünde. Each of the allies had to turn their main territories into
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On 1 September 1342, the various counts and lords of Thuringia of sealed a pact in
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Wilhelm Füßlein (1929), "Die Thüringer Grafenfehde 1342–1346",
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Wars of succession involving the states and peoples of Europe
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fell to Wettin as an agreed fief and became an important
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of Gera and Plauen. Conflict broke out in October. The
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Index

German
House of Wettin
Thuringia
Thuringian landgrave
Ludovingians
Henry Raspe
war of succession
Henry the Illustrious
Meissen
Henry I of Hesse
Landgraviate of Hesse
Frederick I, the Brave
Frederick II, the Serious
Arnstadt
Schwarzburg
Weimar-Orlamünde
Hohnstein
advocates
Electoral Mainz
archbishop
Henry III of Virneburg
Erfurt
city rights
Treaty of Dresden
fiefs
imperial immediacy
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Reuß
Weimar

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