- Source: List of counts of East Frisia
The counts and princes of East Frisia from the East Frisian noble House of Cirksena descended from a line of East Frisian chieftains from Greetsiel. The county came into existence when Emperor Frederick III raised Ulrich I the son of a local chieftain to the status of Imperial Count in 1464.
The most important ruler from the House of Cirksena was Edzard the Great (1462–1528), under whose leadership the Imperial County of East Frisia reached its greatest extent. During his reign the Reformation spread throughout East Frisia.
In 1654 the Cirksena were elevated to princes by the emperor. Charles Edzard, the last ruler from the House of Cirksena, died without issue during the night of 25/26 May 1744 (reportedly from a glass of buttermilk, which is said to have drunk after a hunt). Immediately thereafter, the county passed to King Frederick II of Prussia.
Medieval chieftains in East Frisia
= Broke / Marienhafe
=Tom Brok family
1347-1376: Keno I tom Brok
1376-1389: Ocko I tom Brok
1389-1399: Widzeld tom Brok
1399-1417: Keno II tom Brok (under regency of his mother Foelke Kampana)
1417-1427: Ocko II tom Brok (under regency of his grandmother, Foelke); deposed, died 1435
= Dornum / Nesse
=Attena family
?-1410: Hero Attena
?-1410: Lutet Attena (in Norderburg)
?: Eger Attena (in Westerburg)
?-1433: Sibet I Attena
1433-1473: Sibet II Attena
= Emden
=Abdena family
= Faldern
=Aildesna family
= Greetsiel / Norden
=Cirksena family
?-1430: Liudward
1430-1450: Enno Edzardisna, son-in-law
1450-1466: Ulrich, son, in 1464 was raised to Count.
= Innhausen / Östringen
=Tjarksena family
= Langwarden / Innhausen / Knyphausen
=Onneken, later named of Innhausen and Knyphausen family
= Lütetsburg / Pewsum
=Manninga
= Neermoor / Leer
=Ukena family
Benno
Uko
1427-1436: Focko Ukena and his son Uko Fockena (1427-1432)
= Osterhusen
=Allena family
?-1406: Folkmar Allena
= Rüstringen / Bant
=Wiemken (Papinga)
= Wirdum
=Beninga family
Counts of East Frisia
= House of Cirksena
=Table of rulers
See also
List of countesses of East Frisia
Literature
Tielke, Dr. Martin (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für East Frisia, Bd. 1 ISBN 3-925365-75-3 (1993), Bd. 2 ISBN 3-932206-00-2 (1997), Bd. 3 ISBN 3-932206-22-3 (2001) Ostfries. Landschaftliche Verl.- u. Vertriebsges. Aurich
Martin Jhering: Hofleben in East Frisia. Die Fürstenresidenz Aurich im Jahre 1728, Hannover 2005
Heinrich Reimers: East Frisia bis zum Aussterben seines Fürstenhauses, Bremen 1925
Ernst Esselborn: Das Geschlecht Cirksena, Berlin 1945
F. Wachter: Das Erbe der Cirksena. Ein Stück ostfriesischer Geschichte und des Kampfes um die Vorherrschaft in Norddeutschland., Aurich 1921
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- Gerolf of Holland
- Count Ferdinand Edzard of East Frisia
- History of Frisia
