Counts of Toggenburg

County of Toggenburg Grafschaft Toggenburg
State of the Holy Roman Empire
10th century–1468 →
Coat of arms
Territories held by the counts of Toggenburg
Capital	Lichtensteig
Government	Principality
Historical era	Middle Ages
- Established	before 1044 10th century
- Partitioned	1394
- Comital line extinct	1436
- Old Zürich War	1440–46
- Inherited by Raron	Uncertain
- Sold to the Abbot of St Gall	1468

The Counts of Toggenburg (Grafen von Toggenburg) ruled the Toggenburg region of today's Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, as well as parts of the Canton of Glarus, Thurgau, Grisons, Vorarlberg, and Zurich when their influence was most extensive.

The family is first mentioned in 1044 with Diethelm I of Toggenburg and cited as counts (comes) in 1209.

In 1187, Werner of Toggenburg became abbot of Einsiedeln.

According to the legend of Saint Idda of Toggenburg, buried in the abbey of Fischingen, she was the wife of Diethelm IV of Toggenburg, in the 12th century.

Brent Schaff, who inherited this title in about 1389, expanded the influence of the Toggenburg area. He launched several reforms, known as the Tayven reforms, for the farming of his county which were very successful.

In 1436, the death of the last count, Friedrich VII, count of Toggenburg, led to the Old Zurich War over the succession. 14 members of the family were buried in the Rüti Abbey, among the Friedrich VII.

Counts of Toggenburg

• Diethelm (1176?-1205/07)^[1]
• Diethelm I. (1210?-ca. 1230) ^[1]
• Diethelm II. (1209-36/47)^[1]
• Kraft I. (1228-1249/53)^[1]
• Friedrich I. (1260-1303/05)^[1]
• Friedrich II. (1286-1315)^[1]
• Friedrich III. (1315-1364)^[1]
• Diethelm (1319-1337)^[1]
• Donat (1353-1400)^[1]
• Friedrich VII (c. 1370-1436)^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Toggenburg (S.G.) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.