Waldburg-Trauchburg
Lords of Trauchburg
The former masters of Trauchburg were a branch line of the Barons of Mountain Rescue. About this came Trauchburg to the counts of Veringen, which sold it in 1306 to the Steward of Waldburg.
The Waldburger as regent in Trauchburg
The house Waldenburg was divided in 1429 into three lines. For the first in the Eberhardische, the second in the Jacobian and the third in the Georgian line. Trauchburg fell to the Jacobian line whose founder was James I, Count. His grandson Frederick joined the Teutonic Order, then stepped However, like many other knights of the Order to Protestantism and founded in East Prussia, the Protestant branch line Waldburg- Capustigall. The Count William the elder son of Otto von Waldburg 1543-1573 Bishop of Augsburg. Otto's nephew Gebhard was 1577-1583 Elector and Archbishop of Cologne. Through his attempt to transform the Archbishopric of Cologne into a secular duchy to Gebhard inflicted so much that the line Trauchburg always stood in the following two centuries by crushing mortgage close to bankruptcy. 1612 divided the line Trauchburg in the older line Friedberg- Scheer and the line Trauchburg and after the extinction of the elder line Friedberg- Scheer 1717 again in the younger line Friedberg- Scheer and the younger line Trauchburg. After the extinction of the Counts of Waldburg- Friedberg- Scheer 1764 all parts of the Jacobian line were again united in one hand.
Trauchburg came after the extinction of the Jacobian line 1772 to the Georgian line Waldburg- Zeil and fell after their mediatization finally in 1810 to the Kingdom of Bavaria.