Wernigerode
Wernigerode was a county at the northern foot of the Harz, centred on Wernigerode Castle. In 1337 Count Conrad IV ruled as a vassal of the margraves of Brandenburg.
Conrad acquired former Regenstein lands in 1343, and in 1381 the county became a fief of Magdeburg's archbishops. When Henry IV died in 1429, the native line ended and his Stolberg cousins inherited the county. The Stolberg-Wernigerode branch moved into the restored castle in 1710; the county joined Prussia's Province of Saxony in 1815.
Characters
- Albert I, Count of Wernigerode
- Albert II, Count of Wernigerode
- Albert III, Count of Wernigerode
- Albert V, Count of Wernigerode
- Gebhard I, Count of Wernigerode
- Helen of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Conrad I, Count of Wernigerode
- Conrad II, Count of Wernigerode
- Conrad III, Count of Wernigerode
- Conrad IV, Count of Wernigerode