European Heraldry

Counts of Rietberg

Counts of Rietberg 1237-1586

• Konrad I, (1203-1284), Count of Rietberg,1st Count of Rietberg.
• Walburgis, (1555-1586), Countess of Rietberg married Enno III, ( 1563- 1625), Count of Ostfriesland.

Counts of Ostfriesland-Rietberg 1586-1758

• Johann III, (1566-1625), Count of Ostfriesland-Rietberg, Knight of the Golden Fleece.Count of Ostfriesland-Rietberg, Knight of the Golden Fleece.
• Maria Ernestine Francisca, (1686–1758), Countess of -Rietberg married Maximilian Ulrich, (1679–1746), Count of Kaunitz

Counts and Princes of Kaunitz-Rietberg 1746-1848

• Wenzel Anton, (1711-1794), Count of Kaunitz from 1746 and Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg from 1764. Knight of the Golden Fleece.
• Ernst Christoph, (1737-1797), Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Knight of the Golden Fleece.

Counts and Princes of Ostfriesland 1464- 1744 (House of Cirksena)

• Johann I, (1506-1572), Count of Ostfriesland and Durlay. Knight of the Golden Fleece.
• Maximilian, (1542-1600), Count of Ostfriesland and Durlay. Knight of the Golden Fleece.
• Georg Albrecht, (1690-1734), Prince of Ostfriesland, Knight of the Elephant

Elevated to Princes in 1654.
After the death of the last Prince of Ostfriesland, the county passed to King Frederick II of Prussia.

Counts of Kaunitz
Split into two Branches in 1626:
Bohemian Line extinct 1919.
Moravian Line (later Kaunitz-Rietberg) extinct 1848:

• Dominikus Andreas,(1654-1705), Count of Kaunitz, Knight of the Golden Fleece.
• Maximilian Ulrich, (1679–1746), Count of Kaunitz, Knight of the Golden Fleece married Maria Ernestine Francisca, (1686–1758), Countess of Ostfriesland-Rietberg.