Gleichen
The County of Gleichen was a Thuringian lordship named for Gleichen Castle. In 1337 Count Hermann of Gleichen ruled scattered lands and had recently bought the town magistrate's office at Ohrdruf.
In 1342 Hermann received Ohrdruf as a fief, and the town became the county's centre. The counts left their hilltop castle for a palace there in 1599. When their line died out in 1631, the upper county passed to Hohenlohe and the lower county to Schwarzburg-Sondershausen; the castle reverted to Mainz.
Characters
- Albrecht II von Gleichenstein
- Albrecht III von Gleichenstein
- Ernst I von Tonna
- Ernst II von Gleichen-Harburg
- Ernst III von Gleichen
- Ernst IV von Gleichen
- Ernst V von Gleichenstein
- Erwin I von Gleichen
- Erwin II von Gleichen
- Heinrich I von Gleichenstein
- Heinrich III von Gleichenstein
- Heinrich IV von Gleichen
- Hermann von Gleichen-Tonna
- Lambert I von Tonna
- Lambert II von Gleichen-Tonna
- Lambert II von Gleichen-Tonna