Pappenheim (state)

Pappenheim was a German county in western Bavaria, Germany, located on the Altmühl river between Treuchtlingen and Solnhofen, and south of Weißenburg.

The first member of the House of Pappenheim was Henricus Caput, mentioned in 1111 as vassal of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1815, the Congress of Vienna recognized that Pappenheim should receive compensation for their loss of the hereditary office of Imperial marshal.

The former Saar department of the First French Empire was divided five ways, with one of the portions granted to Pappenheim as sovereign territory.

The head of the family has Quarterly 1&4 Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (parti per fess Sable and Argent, two swords in saltire Gules), 2&3 Pappenheim (Vair plain).

Coat of arms of the Lords and Counts of Pappenheim as hereditary marshals of the Holy Roman Empire
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594–1632), field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War