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Country | Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen |
Founded | 12th century |
Founder | Sizzo I, Count of Schwarzburg |
Final ruler | Prince Günther Victor |
Titles | Count, Prince |
Deposition | 1918 |
The House of Schwarzburg was one of the oldest noble families of Thuringia, which is in modern-day central Germany. Upon the death of Prince Friedrich Günther in 1971, a claim to the headship of the house passed under Semi-Salic primogeniture to his elder sister, Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg who married Friedrich Magnus V, Count of Solms-Wildenfels.[1][2] Reigning over the County of Schwarzburg and founded by Sizzo I of Schwarzburg (died 1160), the family split in the 16th century into the lines of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, with the Sondershausen line dying out in 1909.