Henneberg

The counts of Henneberg were a Franconian dynasty, probably descended from the Popponid Babenberg family, who built a county between the Thuringian Forest and the Main. Their ancestral seat was the Henneburg, first associated with burgrave Godebold II of Wurzburg in 1096; the family held the burgraviate of Wurzburg from about 1057, losing its rights by 1354. Godebold founded Vessra monastery in 1131, later the dynasty's burial church.

The great division of 1274 formed the Hartenberg, Aschach-Romhild and Schleusingen lines. In 1310 Berthold VII of Henneberg-Schleusingen became a princely count and imperial prince, at various times administering Bohemia and guarding the young Wittelsbach heir.

The Reformation came in 1542. When the last princely count, Georg Ernst, died in 1583, the male line became extinct and the lands passed to the Saxon Wettin dynasty under an inheritance treaty.