Wied

Wied was a small imperial county named for the river that flows through the Westerwald to the Rhine. From 1243 to 1462 it was united with a branch of the house of Isenburg as Isenburg-Wied. Its rulers later divided their lands among branches of the family: Wied-Dierdorf was separated in 1631, and in 1698 the remaining territory was divided into Wied-Neuwied and Wied-Runkel. The county's lands were incorporated into Nassau in 1806 and passed to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna in 1815.