Reichsunmittelbarkeit
The Schillingsfürst line descends from Count Ludwig Gustav (1634-1697), whose descendant Philip Ernest obtained the erection of his fiefs into a principality within the Holy Roman Empire, enjoying Imperial immediacy, in 1744. The county of Waldenburg was added to the principality in 1757. It was mediatised to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806.