The county of Waldeck-Eisenberg was a county within the Holy Roman Empire that belonged to the Upper Rhine Kreits. weapon of Waldeck-Eisenberg Waldeck-Eisenberg (1507-1598)
In 1507, the county of Waldeck became Count Count Hendrik VIII and his uncle Philip II. The county originated when Philip received the offices of Eisenberg, Mengeringhausen and Landau and the half-office of Rhoden, Wettenberg, Waldeck and part of the glory of Itter, and Korbach was jointly controlled by the two brothers.
Count Philip III (died 1539) divided the land among his two sons in 1538, where Walraad II received Eisenberg and Johan I Landau.
After the extinction of Waldeck-Landau in 1597 and Waldeck-Wildungen in 1598, Waldeck was reunited under the joint government of Waldeck-Eisenberg's brother Christiaan Walde IV. Already in 1607, they shared the county again. Waldeck-Eisenberg (1607-1692)
In 1607, two sons of the Count Josias van Waldeck-Eisenberg passed away in 1588:
This division again created the Eisenberg and Wildungen branches.
In 1625, the county of Pyrmont was acquired from the legacy of the county of Gleichen. From the same inheritance, the glory of Tonna came from Thuringia; This glory was obtained from Schenk van Tautenburg in 1640. In 1677, the glory of Tonna was sold to the Duchess of Saxony-Gotha.
As a result of the marriage of Count Walraad IV in 1607 with Anna van Baden-Durlach, in 1639, the county of Culemborg, the county of Wittem and the glory of Werth were inherited.
On June 1, 1682, Count Georg Frederik became a state of the art. Because he had no sons, his death came to an end to the royal title. His daughter Henriette, who was married to Duke Ernst Frederik I of Saxony-Hildburghausen, married the county of Culemborg and the glory of Werth. Her sister Albertine Elisabeth, who was married to Count Philip Lodewijk of Erbach, inherited the county of Wittem. Waldeck-Eisenberg fell to Waldeck-Wildungen, reuniting Waldeck forever.
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