Plauen

The Vogts of Plauen were a house named after their castle at Plauen, branching off from the Vogts of Weida. From 1236 the family appears in documents as the Vogts of Plauen. In 1278 Count Conrad of Everstein granted the town of Plauen to his brother-in-law Heinrich I.

Heinrich I of Plauen's sons split the house: Heinrich the Bohemian founded the senior line, while Heinrich the Russian founded the junior line, which took the name Reuss in 1307. In 1327 the Plauen line accepted Bohemian overlordship, and in the Vogtland War of 1354 to 1357 it lost most of its territory to Emperor Charles IV and the Wettin margraves.

Heinrich von Plauen the Elder defended Marienburg after Grunwald in 1410 and led the Teutonic Order until 1413. The senior line died out in 1572; its lands passed to the Reuss.