County/Bailiwick of Kyburg Grafschaft/Landvogtei Kyburg | |||||||||
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| 1053–1798 | |||||||||
 Feudal territories in Switzerland c. 1200. The territory of the house of Kyburg, including their terrories inherited from Lenzburg in 1173, is shown in yellow. | |||||||||
| Capital | Kyburg | ||||||||
| Government | Feudalism | ||||||||
| Graf | |||||||||
• d. 1121 | Hartmann I. von Dillingen | ||||||||
| Landvogt | |||||||||
• 1795–1798 | Hans Caspar Ulrich | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Death of Adalbert II von Winterthur | 1053 | ||||||||
• Inheritance from Lenzburg | 1173 | ||||||||
• Comital line extinct | 1264 | ||||||||
| 1383 | |||||||||
• Neu-Kyburg line extinct | 1417 | ||||||||
• Landvogtei of Zürich | 1452 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1798 | ||||||||
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![Coat of arms (after 1263)[1] of Kyburg](view_image.php?q=County_of_Kyburg&sq=&lang=&file=File:Wappen_Vogtei_Thurgau.svg)
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The County of Kyburg probably came into existence in the 11th century and is first mentioned in 1027. After 1053 it was a possession of the counts of Dillingen. It was greatly expanded with the extinction of the House of Lenzburg in 1173.
During 1180–1250, the counts of Kyburg existed as a separate cadet line of the counts of Dillingen. The county was ruled by Hartmann V, nephew of the last count of Kyburg in the agnatic line, during 1251–1263. It then passed to the House of Habsburg as possession of the counts of Neu-Kyburg (also Kyburg-Burgdorf) after the extinction of the agnatic line of the House of Kyburg, until the extinction of Neu-Kyburg in 1417. It then passed under direct Habsburg suzerainty, then briefly to Zürich (1424–1442), to emperor Frederick III (1442–1452) and back to Zürich in 1452, from which time it was administered as a bailiwick (Landvogtei) of Zürich until the establishment of the Helvetic Republic in 1798.
Despite not being in possession anymore, the Habsburg monarchs continued carrying the historic title of "Princely Count of Kyburg" in the grand title of the Emperor of Austria.
- ^ Coat of arms of Neu-Kyburg, replacing the black field of the original coat of arms with the red of the House of Habsburg.
- ^ A coat of arms with four lions, as in that of the counts of Dillingen, is recorded in a seal of 1220. Franz Ernst Pipitz, Die Grafen von Kyburg (1839), 27–30. The coat of arms with two lions is first mentioned as Kiburg in nigro gilvan tabulam fore ponis, obliquansque duos gilvos secet illa leones (i.e. sable, a bend or, two lions [passant] of the same) in the Clipearius Teutonicorum by Konrad von Mure (ca. 1264, v. 34), ed. Paul Ganz (1899). The shield is shown in red rather than black in depictions of the 14th century. The black shield mentioned by von Mure was introduced as the municipal arms of Kyburg in 1926. Peter Ziegler, Die Gemeindewappen des Kantons Zürich, Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zürich, Wappenzeichnungen von Walter Käch und Fritz Brunner, Zürich 1977, p. 67. Die Form mit dem schwarzen Wappenschild wurde 1926 von der Gemeinde Kyburg als Wappen übernommen.