• Allied with Habsburg and Zürich in the Old Zürich War
1440–46
• Condominium of the Old Swiss Confederacy
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1458–1798
• Annexed to Helvetic canton of Linth
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1798 1464
• Joined St Gallen
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February 19, 1803
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Swabia
Old Swiss Confederacy
The House of Rapperswil respectively Counts of Rapperswil (Grafen von Rapperwil since 1233, before Lords) ruled the upper Zürichsee and Seedamm region around Rapperswil and parts of, as of today, Swiss cantons of St. Gallen, Glarus, Zürich and Graubünden when their influence was most extensive around the 1200s until the 1290s. They acted also as Vogt of the most influential Einsiedeln Abbey in the 12th and 13th century, and at least three abbots of Einsiedeln were members of Rapperswil family.
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Rapperswil Castle (Swiss German: Schloss Rapperswil) is a castle, built in the early 13th century by the HouseofRapperswil, in the formerly independent...
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Catholic parish church in the city ofRapperswil, canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The church is located next to Rapperswil Castle on the so-called Herrenberg...
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town of Rapperswil. They are located in the present city ofRapperswil-Jona, Canton of St. Gallen, in Switzerland. The coat of arms of the Houseof Rapperswil...
von Rapperswil (also Raprechtswil, fl. ca. 1280) is one of the Minnesingers featured in the Codex Manesse. He was a ministerialis in the service of the...
exchange of goods between members of the noble families of Kyburg and Rapperswil in the villages of Oberwesin and Niderwesin that were in the possession of Kyburg...
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was given by the HouseofRapperswil and first mentioned in 1099 AD. The church is situated in the center of the municipality of Uster on a small rocky...
the HouseofRapperswil in the Swiss municipality of Uster in the Canton of Zürich. Since 1995 it houses a boarding school. The conspicuous tower of the...
municipality of Greifensee and the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It was probably built by the HouseofRapperswil and is a Swiss heritage site of national...
family (Grimmenturm) and the HouseofRapperswil, where they were received after their expulsion to 1348 to asylum in Rapperswil. Memorial measurement had...
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