The territory included the current municipalities of Balzers, Planken, Schaan, Triesen, Triesenberg and Vaduz.

Ferdinand Karl von Hohenems (1650–1686), for undue appropriation and excessive witch-hunt, was deprived of his dominions in 1684 by the Emperor Leopold I.

The emperor assigned Ferdinand Karl's former possessions to his younger brother, Count Jakob Hannibal III (1653–1730).

To pay his debts and recover Hohenems itself, Jakob Hannibal was forced to sell the Lordship (in 1699), and the County (in 1712), to Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein.

[3][4] With these territories, in 1719 the prince gained from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI the right to found a single state, the present Principality of Liechtenstein.