County of Mansfeld Grafschaft Mansfeld | |||||||||
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| Status | County of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Mansfeld | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern Europe | ||||||||
| 1069 | |||||||||
| 1580 | |||||||||
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The House of Mansfeld was a princely German house, which took its name from the town of Mansfeld in the present-day state of Saxony-Anhalt.[1] Mansfelds were archbishops, generals, supporters as well as opponents of Martin Luther, and Habsburg administrators.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 599.