House of Ziegenhain: Difference between revisions

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Ziegenhagen, Cigenhagen, Czigenhayn, also called Wegebach

Personal Arms
Gottfried V of Ziegenhain
Count of Ziegenhain and Nidda
Arms on his gravestone
Gottfried V of Ziegenhain
Count of Ziegenhain and Nidda
Arms in Wijnbergen Armorial
Otto von Ziegenhain
Elector-Archbishop of Trier
1418–1430
Otto von Ziegenhain
Elector-Archbishop of Trier
1418–1430
Quartered arms variant

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 Counts of Nidda were the house of Malsberg
 Ziegenhain 'ancient arms' were a ziegenkopfadler/goat eagle
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+<!-- 1st counts of Nidda were of house of Malsberg, the county then passed to Ziegenahin who split the inheritance between two brothers so the 2nd house of Nidda were Ziegenhain/Reichhenbach branch...and finally Nidda went back to Ziegenhain main branch and from them to Hesse. Ziegenhain ancient arms was not the goat but rather an additional arms that was used for newly created lordship/county of Ziegenhain, a sort of canting arms that was used alongside the dynstic arms. The arms of the family was always shield split in two, black and gold with later addition of stars. -->