Stadion (state)

Lordship (Barony, County) of Stadion
Herrschaft (Freiherrschaft, Grafschaft) Stadion
State of the Holy Roman Empire
← 1200–1741 →   →
Coat of arms
Capital		Oberstadion
Government		Principality
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Established	1200
•	Division into Swabian     and Alsatian lines	1392–1700
•	Raised to barony	1686
•	Raised to county	1705
•	Partitioned in twain	1741
•	Both counties mediatised	1806

Stadion was a statelet of the Holy Roman Empire, located around Thannhausen in the present-day Bavarian administrative region of Swabia, Germany.

The Swabian Stadion dynasty was first mentioned in the area of Oberstadion in the 13th century. John Philipp of Stadion (1652–1741), civil servant of the Mainz archbishops, was elevated to the rank of a Freiherr (Baron) in 1686. In 1705, he acquired the immediate lordship of Thannhausen and thereby was raised to a Reichsgraf. Upon his death in 1741, the estates were partitioned between the lines of Stadion-Thannhausen and Stadion-Warthausen.

Lords of Stadion

Lords of Stadion (ca 1200–1686)

• Walter I (? – ca 1230)
• Walter II (? – ca 1260) with...
• Louis I (? – ca 1260)
• Louis II (? – 1328) with...
• Conrad (? – 1309)
• Walter III (? – 1352)
• Louis III (? – 1364)
• Eitel (1364–1392)
• Conrad I (1392–1439)
• Walter (1439–1457) with...
• Pancratius (1439–1479)
• Nicholas (1479–1507)
• John (1507–1530)
• John Ulrich (1530–1600)
• John Christopher II (1600–1629)
• John Christopher III (1629–1666)
• John Philip (1666–1741), Baron from 1686, Count from 1705

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