Cilli
Cilli was a lordship centred on Celje in Lower Styria's Savinja valley. In 1337 Frederick of Sanneck held it; his family had been Habsburg vassals since 1308.
Emperor Louis IV made Frederick an imperial count in 1341. Hermann II saved King Sigismund at Nicopolis in 1396 and married his daughter Barbara to him in 1405; the family became imperial princes in 1436. Ulrich II's murder in 1456 ended the dynasty, and the Habsburgs claimed Cilli under a 1443 inheritance treaty.
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- Anna of Celje
- Diemut of Wallsee
- Frederick I, Count of Celje
- Hermann I, Count of Celje
- Catherine of Celje
- Catherine of Heunburg
- Ulrich I, Count of Celje
- Ulrich of Sanneck
- Ulrich of Sanneck