Montbéliard

Montbéliard was an immediate county of the Holy Roman Empire in the Jura foothills. In 1337 its count Othenin, called the Mad, lived secluded under his uncle’s guardianship.

Othenin died childless in 1338, and Emperor Louis IV granted the county to Henry I of Montfaucon, who faced a civic revolt in 1340. Henry II of Montfaucon fell fighting the Ottomans at Nicopolis in 1396; heiress Henriette married Eberhard IV of Württemberg in 1407. Württemberg held Montbéliard from 1444 until French troops occupied it in 1793; it renounced its rights in 1796.