Kyburg, House of
Substate | Defunct
1180 CE to 1263 CE
The House of Kyburg is a family of Grafen, or counts, from Zürich in Switzerland.
The family is one of the three most powerful noble families in the Swiss plateau beside the Habsburg and the House of Savoy during the 11th and 12th Centuries.
With the extinction of the male line in 1263, Rudolph of Habsburg lays claim to the Kyburg lands and annexes them to the Habsburg holdings, which marks the beginning of the Habsburg rise to power.
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Some regions (Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, later known as Waldstätten) are accorded the Imperial immediacy to grant the empire direct control over the mountain passes.
The counts of Kyburg, one of the three most powerful noble families in the Swiss plateau beside the Habsburg and the House of Savoy during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, establish the town of Winterthur, near Zürich in northeastern Switzerland, in about 1180.
The Habsburgs under King Rudolph I (Holy Roman Emperor in 1273) now lay claim to the Kyburg lands and annex them, extending their territory to the eastern Swiss plateau