Mansfeld
The County of Mansfeld was a mining territory around Eisleben, named for Mansfeld Castle. In 1337 it was held by the counts of Mansfeld, descendants of a Querfurt lord who married the earlier dynasty's heiress.
Martin Luther was born in Eisleben in 1483; some counts signed the Augsburg Confession in 1530, and Luther died in the town in 1546. Burdened by debt, the counts lost imperial immediacy in 1579, with Saxony and Magdeburg taking control. The last branch died out in 1780, and Eisleben passed to Prussia in 1815.
Characters
- Albert of Mansfeld
- Burchard IV of Mansfeld-Querfurt
- Burchard V, Count of Mansfeld
- Burchard VI of Mansfeld
- Gebhard III of Mansfeld
- Oda of Mansfeld
- Rupert of Mansfeld
- Rupert of Mansfeld