Waldeck
Waldeck was a county in northern Hesse, administered from Korbach. In 1337 Count Henry IV of the Waldeck family ruled lands that had once been a Mainz fief.
The family split into Landau and Waldeck lines in 1397 and again into Wildungen and Eisenberg in 1486. The latter branches adopted Lutheranism in 1526 and 1529. Waldeck inherited Pyrmont in 1626, reunited in 1692 and became a principality in 1712. It joined the German Confederation in 1815.
Characters
- Adelaide of Cleves
- Adolf I, Count of Waldeck
- Adolf II of Waldeck
- Armgard of Waldeck
- Dietrich von Waldeck
- Elisabeth of Waldeck
- Henry III, Lord of Waldeck
- Henry IV, Count of Waldeck
- Henry V of Waldeck
- Mechthild of Waldeck
- Otto I, Count of Waldeck
- Otto II, Count of Waldeck