Architecture

Hohenems family

The House of Hohenems, also Lords of Ems (Herren von Ems), were an ancient German noble family in Vorarlberg. After Giovanni Angelo Medici, was elected Pope Pius IV in 1559, his nephews, the sons of Wolf Dietrich von Hohenems (who was married to the Pope's sister, Clara de Medici) received the Imperial Countship of von Hohenems in 1560. One of the Pope's nephews, Cardinal Mark Sittich von Hohenems (1538–1595), became Bishop of Constance, but resided in Rome. His illegitimate son, Roberto, founded an Italian line, which, under the name Altemps, became Dukes of Gallese, Margraves of Soriano, and Princes of Altemps, and only became extinct in 1964. The Vorarlberg line acquired the County of Vaduz in 1613 and divided itself into the Imperial Counts of Hohenems-Lustenau and Hohenems-Vaduz in 1646. The Vaduz line was subject to Imperial execution and debt due to abusive witch trials and was forced to sell its County to the Liechtensteins in 1712. The Lustenau line died out in the male line in 1759; its territory fell to Austria, and, in 1790, to the House of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems.

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