Count of Hermannstadt

The Count of Hermannstadt, also Count of Sibiu or Count of Szeben[1] (Hungarian: szebeni ispán), was the head of the Transylvanian Saxons living in the wider region of Hermannstadt (now Sibiu in Romania) in the 13th and early 14th centuries.[2][3] The counts were royal officials, appointed and dismissed by the Kings of Hungary.

  1. ^ Vásáry, István (24 March 2005). Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-521-83756-9.
  2. ^ Engel 2001, p. 114.
  3. ^ Engel 1996, p. 191.