Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel was a county on its namesake lake between the Jura and the Swiss plateau. In 1337 Count Rudolf IV of the house of Neuchâtel ruled a territory allied with Bern and Fribourg.
The native line ended with Countess Elisabeth in 1395; after a succession dispute, the margraves of Hachberg-Sausenberg gained the county in 1457. Swiss cantons occupied Neuchâtel from 1512 to 1529, and its subjects embraced the Reformation in the fifteen thirties. In 1707 it passed to the kings of Prussia in personal union; in 1815 it also joined the Swiss Confederation.
Characters
- Amadeus, Count of Neuchâtel
- Berthold I of Neuchâtel
- Eleanor of Savoy-Vaud
- Louis I of Neuchâtel
- Rudolph III of Neuchâtel
- Rudolph IV of Neuchâtel
- Sibylle de Montfaucon