Truhendingen

Truhendingen was a Swabian-Franconian county whose family took its name from Altentrüdingen. In 1337 its Franconian possessions included Scheßlitz and the Giechburg, held as Bamberg fiefs through the Meranian inheritance.

Frederick of Truhendingen served as prince-bishop of Bamberg from 1363 to 1366. The contested fiefs were repeatedly pledged and finally sold to the bishopric in 1390. Thereafter family members served other lords: Oswalt became an official of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and the dynasty died out in the late fifteenth century.