Oettingen

Oettingen was a Swabian county of the House of Oettingen, whose lands lay around Nördlingen. Count Louis VI ruled it in 1337.

Partition in 1410 divided the family’s lands. The senior branch became Protestant and princely in 1674, but died out in 1731; the Catholic Oettingen-Spielberg and Oettingen-Wallerstein branches inherited its lands and became princely in 1734 and 1774 respectively. Bavaria acquired the county in 1806 and ceded part to Württemberg in 1810.