Sondershausen
Sondershausen was the Thuringian seat of a branch of the Counts of Hohnstein, which split from the family in 1289. In 1337 its lands were ruled by Count Henry of Hohnstein.
The Hohnstein-Sondershausen male line died out in 1356, and its inheritance passed to the Counts of Schwarzburg. The parent house sold its ancestral castle to Stolberg in 1412–1417. When Count Ernst VII died in 1593, Brunswick troops expelled the Stolberg and Schwarzburg heirs from the remaining county.
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- Henry III of Honstein-Sondershausen
- Henry V of Honstein-Sondershausen
- Matilda of Brunswick-Göttingen
- Richza of Honstein