page_title: Counts of Celje
section_title: Lords of Sanneck or Barons of Soune, Counts of Cilli
hierarchical_section_title: Counts of Celje / Lords of Sanneck or Barons of Soune, Counts of Cilli
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Struktur des Reiches, dargestellt als Quaterionen English: Organizational Structure of the Empire of the Holy Roman Empire
context_page_description: The Counts of Celje or the Counts of Cilli were the most influential late medieval noble dynasty on the territory of present-day Slovenia. Risen as vassals of the Habsburg dukes of Styria in the early 14th century, they ruled the County of Cilli as immediate counts from 1341 and rose to Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1436.
context_section_description: The Lords of Sanneck (Žovnek) or Barons of Soune  
  Gebhard (c. 1130–1144)
  Gebhard II (1173–1227)
  Conrad I (died c. 1255)
  Ulrich I of Sanneck (died c. 1265)
  Ulrich II of Sanneck (died c. 1316), married Countess Catherine of Heunburg, heir to the count Ulrich II of Heunburg and her wife Agnes of Baden
  Frederick I (c. 1300–1359/60), son, from 1341 Count of Celje
  Counts of Cilli (Celje)
  Ulrich I (1331–1368), son of Frederick I, Captain in Carniola, married Countess Adelheid of Ortenburg
  Herman I (1332/34–1385), son of Frederick I, married Catherine, daughter of Ban Stephen II of Bosnia
  William (1361/62–1392), son of Ulrich I, married Anna of Poland, daughter of King Casimir III the Great of Poland
  Anna of Cilli (1380–1416), daughter, married King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland
  Herman II (c. 1365–1435), son of Hermann I, Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia
  Barbara of Cilli (c. 1390–1451), daughter, married King Sigismund of Hungary
  Frederick II (died 1454), son of Hermann II, Prince in 1436, Ban of Slavonia, 1. wife Elizabeth of Frankopan, 2. wife Veronika of Desenice
  Ulrich II (1407–1456), son, married Catherine of Branković
  Kantakuzina Katarina Branković (1456–1458), widow of Ulrich, in 1458 the county is annexed to Austria.
caption: Counts of Cilli (bottom row, second right) in the structure of the Holy Roman Empire
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