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{{Short description|County in the Holy Roman Empire}}
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{{Infobox country
|native_name            = ''Herrschaft (Freiherrschaft, Grafschaft) Rechberg und Rothenlöwen''
|conventional_long_name = Lordship (Barony, County) of Rechberg and Rothenlöwen
|common_name            = Rechberg and Rothenlowen<!-- Category sorting; no umlaut or E-infix needed -->
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|image_coat             = Wappen von Osterberg.svg
|symbol_type            = Coat of arms of Osterberg
|image_map              = 
|image_map_caption      = 
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|era                    = Middle Ages
|status                 = Vassal
|empire                 = Holy Roman Empire
|government_type        = Principality
|
|year_start             = 12th century
|year_end               = 1806
|life_span              = before 1206–1806
|
|event_pre              = First mention of [[Rechberg]]
|date_pre               = 1176
|event_start            = <!--- Default: "Established" --->
|date_start             = before 1206
|event1                 = Raised to [[feudal barony|barony]]
|date_event1            = 1577
|event2                 = Raised to [[Graf|county]]
|date_event2            = 1607
|event3                 = Inherited [[Osterberg]]
|date_event3            = 1767
|event_end              = [[German Mediatisation|Mediatised]] to<br>{{spaces|4}}[[Kingdom of Württemberg|Württemberg]]
|date_end               = 
|event_post             = Acquired by [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]]
|date_post              = 1810
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|p1                     = Duchy of Swabia
|image_p1               = [[File:Arms of Swabia.svg|20px|alt=|link=Duchy of Swabia]]
|s1                     = Kingdom of Württemberg
|flag_s1                = Flagge Königreich Württemberg.svg
|
|capital                = ''Unknown''
|
|footnotes              = <!--- Accepts wikilinks --->
}}
'''[[Rechberg]] and Rothenlöwen''' was a county within the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was a renaming of [[Osterberg]], and it inherited Osterberg in 1767. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was [[German Mediatisation|mediatised]] to [[Württemberg]] in 1806. It was ruled by the [[Rechberg|House of Rechberg]] which would be an important one in the 19th century.  [[Aloys von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen|Aloys]] was a prominent [[Bavaria]]n statesman, while his son [[Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen|Johann Bernhard]], would enter the [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] diplomatic service and rise eventually to the post of [[List of foreign ministers of Austria-Hungary|Minister of Foreign Affairs]].

== Counts of Rechberg and Rothenlöwen ==

=== After German Mediatisation ===
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* {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Maximilian Emanuel''', Count 18..-1819 (1736-1819) 
** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Aloys''', Count 1819-1849 (1766-1849) 
*** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Albrecht''', Count 1849-1885 (1803-1885)
**** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Otto''', Count 1885-1918 (1833-1918)
***** '''Joseph''', Count 1918-1967 (1885-1967) 
***** {{Tree list/final branch}} ''Count Albert (1887-1983)'' 
****** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Albert''', Count 1967-2013 (1912-2013)
******* '''Bernhard''', Count 2013–present (b.1956)
******** Konrad, Hereditary Count (b.1994)
******** {{Tree list/final branch}} Count Gaudenz (b.1996)
******* {{Tree list/final branch}} Count Nikolaus (b.1958)
******** {{Tree list/final branch}} Count Leon (b.1996)
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