Ferrette

The County of Ferrette, or Pfirt, covered much of the Sundgau in southern Alsace. In 1337 its heiress Joanna ruled the county; she had married Albert II of Habsburg in 1324.

Joanna died in 1351, and Ferrette was administered as part of Further Austria. In 1469 Archduke Sigismund mortgaged it with Upper Alsace to Charles the Bold for 50,000 florins; it returned to the Habsburgs after Charles died in 1477. The Peace of Westphalia gave it to France in 1648, and Louis XIV granted it to Cardinal Mazarin in 1659.