Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn

Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Grafschaft Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn"
conventional_long_name = County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
common_name = Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn|
continent = Europe
region = Central Europe
country = Germany
era = Middle Ages
status = Vassal
empire = Holy Roman Empire
government_type = Principality|
year_start = 1607
year_end = 1648|
event_start = Partitioned from
Sayn-Wittgenstein
date_start =
1607
event1 = Annexed by Abp Cologne
on death of count
date_event1 =

event_end = Succession resolved:
partitioned in twain
date_end =
1648|
p1 = Sayn-Wittgenstein
image_p1 =
s1 = Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn-Altenkirchen
image_s1 =
s2 = Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg
image_s2 = |



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image_map_caption = |
capital = Sayn de icon

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn was a County of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, comprising of the lands of the region of Sayn. It was created as a partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein in 1607, although it was not until the next year that it obtained fully the Countship of Sayn. The succession was never clear, leading to the annexation of the County by the Archbishop of Cologne. It was not until a treaty in 1648 by the end of the Thirty Years' War was it decided the county would pass to the sisters Ernestine and Johanette, under the regency of their mother Louise Juliane. They partitioned the County into Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn-Altenkirchen and Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg soon after.

Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (1607–1623)

* William III (1607–23)

External links

* [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=910 Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn] from the Getty Collection