County of Waldeck

Initially, Waldeck was a fief of the Electorate of Mainz. In 1379, it became the County of Reichslehen.^[2] After the death of Count Henry VI in 1397, the family split into two lines: the senior Landau line founded by Adolph III and the junior Waldeck line founded by Henry VII, which sometimes feuded with one another. The two lines came under the sovereignty of the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1431 and 1438 respectively, due to financial difficulties and the final victory of the Landgraviate over Mainz in 1427, which led to the transfer of the County of Ziegenhain to Hesse. The Landgraves levied tribute on the Counts of Waldeck in exchange for forgiving their debts to them and taking on all their debts to others.^[3]

After the death of Henry VIII in 1486, the Waldeck line split once more, into the Waldeck-Wildungen and Waldeck-Eisenberg lines. The senior Landau line ended with the death of Otto IV in 1495 and its possessions passed to the Wildungen and Eisenberg lines. In 1526 and 1529, Philip IV of Waldeck-Wildungen and Philip III of Waldeck-Eisenberg converted their respective principalities to Lutheranism. Several partitions led to the creation of further lines, but these were reunited by the new Wildung line in 1692.

In 1626, the family also inherited the County of Pyrmont and thereafter called themselves "Counts of Waldeck and Pyrmont." The two counties of Waldeck and Pyrmont were physically separated and were not united into a single legal entity until the 19th century.

In 1639, Count Philip Dietrich of Waldeck from the new Eisenberg line, inherited the County of Culemborg in Gelderland along with the counties of Werth (Isselburg) in Münsterland, Pallandt, and Wittem. The Lordship of Tonna in Thüringen, a fief of the Dukes of Saxe-Altenburg was inherited by Waldeck-Pyrmont in 1640, but sold to Duke Frederick I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1677. Waldeck remained the main residence of the county until 1655, when the residence was shifted from Waldeck to Arolsen. Philip Dietrich was succeeded in 1664 by his brother Count George Frederick, whose full title was "Count and Lord of Waldeck, Pyrmont, and Cuylenburg, Lord of Tonna, Paland, Wittem, Werth." In 1682, he was promoted by Emperor Leopold I to the status of "Prince of Waldeck", with Imperial immediacy. His four sons all predeceased him, so on 12 June 1685, he made a contract with his cousin, Christian Louis of the new Wildung line, to transfer the whole Waldeck patrimony to him and for it to be inherited by primogeniture thereafter. This agreement was confirmed by Emperor Leopold in 1697. After George Frederick's death in 1692, Christian Louis became the sole ruler of the entire principality.

The County of Cuylenburg and the Lordship of Werth were lost in 1714, owing to the marriage of George Frederick's second daughter, Sophia Henriette (1662-1702) to Ernest of Saxe-Hildeburghausen.

Principality of Waldeck (1712-1848)

On 6 January 1712, Frederick Anthony Ulrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont was elevated to prince by Emperor Charles VI. During the American War of Independence from 1775 to 1783, Prince Frederick Carl Augustus provided three regiments to the British for the war in America in exchange for payment. A total of 1,225 Waldeck soldiers fought in America.

The principality was caught up in the Napoleonic Wars and in 1807 it joined the Confederation of the Rhine,^[4] but not the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia. Waldeck was required to guarantee equal rights of worship to its Catholic citizens and supply 400 soldiers in case of a campaign. For a brief period, from 1806 until 1812, Pyrmont was a separate principality as a result of the partition of the territory between the brothers Frederick and George, but the territories were reunited after Frederick's death.

The independence of the principality was confirmed in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, and Waldeck and Pyrmont became a member of the German Confederation. In 1832 it joined the Zollverein. In 1847, on Prussian initiative, the sovereignty of Hesse-Kassel over Waldeck (and Schaumburg-Lippe) was finally revoked by the Federal Convention of the Confederation. This had been the case defacto since Waldeck joined the Confederation of the Rhine in 1807, but the ruling meant that Hesse-Kassel lost the right to claim the territory in escheat.

Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1849-1918)

Since 1645, Waldeck had been in a personal union with the County (later Principality) of Pyrmont. Beginning in 1813, the prince strove to unite the two territories legally into the Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont. However, political opposition meant that this did not take place until 1849. Even after the unification, Pyrmont retained its own tiny Landtag for budgetary matters until 1863/64. In 1849-1850, Waldeck was divided into three districts: the District of the Eder, the of Eisenberg and the District of the Twiste.

Fundamental law of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont, 23 May 1849 (excerpts)

Waldeck in 1905

On 1 August 1862, Waldeck-Pyrmont concluded a military convention with Prussia. As a result, Waldeck-Pyrmont fought on the Prussian side in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and thus avoided annexation at the war's end - unlike the neighbouring Electorate of Hesse. However, the small, cash-strapped principality could not afford to pay its contributions to the new North German Confederation, so the principality's Landtag unanimously voted to reject the North German Constitution in order to pressure the prince into signing an accession treaty Prussia. Bismarck had previously ruled out unification with Prussia on grounds of prestige. Therefore, under the treaty that Waldeck-Pyrmont and Prussia signed in October 1867, the principality remained nominally independent and retained its legislative sovereignty, but from 1 January 1868 Prussian took control of the principality's state deficit, internal administration, judiciary, and schools. Thereafter, Prussia appointed a State Director formally with the agreement of the prince. Appellate jurisdiction for Waldeck was exercised by the Prussian state court (Landgericht) in Kassel and for Pyrmont by the state court in Hannover. The prince retained control over the administration of the church, the prerogative of mercy, and the right of veto over new laws. He also continued to receive the income from his domains.^[5] Prussian administration served to reduce administrative costs for the small state and was based on a ten-year contract that was repeatedly renewed for the duration of its existence. The situation continued in 1871, when the principality became a constituent state of the new German Empire. In 1905, Waldeck and Pyrmont had an area of 1121 km² and a population of 59,000.

The princely house of Waldeck and Pyrmont is closely related to the royal family of the Netherlands. The last ruling prince, Frederick, was the brother of Queen Consort Emma of the Netherlands.

Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1919-1929)

On 13 November 1918, at the end of World War I, during the German Revolution that resulted in the fall of all the German monarchies, a representative of the revolutionary workers' and soldiers' council of Kassel came to Waldeck and declared that the monarchy was abolished. The principality became the Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont within the Weimar Republic. However, no new constitution was produced, so the monarchical constitution of 1849/1852 remained in force de jure until 1929.^[6] The terms of the treaty with Prussia also remained in force. Following a referendum, Pyrmont was separated from Waldeck on 30 November 1921 and joined Prussia, becoming part of the new Hameln-Pyrmont district of the Province of Hanover.^[7] After this, the territory was simply the Free State of Waldeck.

The remaining territory continued to be governed according to the 1867 treaty with Prussia until it was cancelled in 1926. On 9 April 1927, the federal Financial Equalisation act (Finanzausgleichsgesetz) was amended. For Waldeck, this meant that its allocation of federal tax income was reduced by almost 600,000 Reichsmarks. Without a massive rise in local taxes, the Free State was no longer financially viable. Therefore on 1 April 1929, the state was abolished and became part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. This marked the end of Waldeck's existence as a sovereign state.

Developments since 1929

When Waldeck joined Prussia in 1929, the three districts into which Waldeck had been divided in 1849-1850 (Eder, Eisenberg, and Twiste) were initially retained. Additionally, Höringhausen and Eimelrod, which had been exclaves of Prussia surrounded by Waldeck since 1866, were joined to Eisenberg district. In 1932, the federal government merged Eder and Eisenberg districts. The district of the Twiste was to be merged with the neighbouring district of Wolfhagen on 1 April 1934, but this was delayed after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. A law of 28 February 1934 reversed the merger of Eder and Eisenberg and definitively cancelled the planned merger of Twiste and Wolfhagen.

On 1 February 1942, the three districts of Waldeck were merged into the new Waldeck district, which had its capital at Korbach. This new district had roughly the same borders as the old Free State. It was made part of Greater Hesse in 1945, which became the state of Hesse in the modern Federal Republic of Germany in 1946. On 1 August 1972, the city of Volkmarsen was separated from the district of Wolfhagen and reassigned to Waldeck. During the reform of the districts of Hesse in 1974, Waldeck was merged with the neighbouring district of Frankeberg to from the new district of Waldeck-Frankenberg, while the city of Züschen became a suburb of Fritzlar in Schwalm-Eder-Kreis.

Partitions of Waldeck under Waldeck rule

Table of rulers

Ruler		Born	Reign	Death	Ruling part	Consort	Notes
Widekind I		?	1107-1137	11 June 1137	County of Waldeck (at Schwalenberg until 1127)	Lutrud of Itter (d. bef. 2 March 1149) five children	Brothers and first known ruling members of the family.
Volkwin I		?	1107-1111	c. 1111	County of Waldeck (at Schwalenberg)	Unknown
Volkwin II		1125	1137-1178	1178	County of Waldeck	Luitgard of Reichenbach (d. aft. 1161) 1144 (annulled 1161) five children	Son of Widukind I.
Henry I		c. 1170	1178-1214		County of Waldeck	Heseke of Dassel (d. 25 July 1220) five children	Sons of Volkwin II, divided the land, but was quickly reunited with Waldeck.
Herman I		1163	1178-1225	1225	County of Waldeck (at Schwalenberg)	Unmarried
Widekind II		1148	1178-1189	1189	County of Pyrmont	Unknown three children
Schwalenberg annexed to Waldeck
Gottschalk I		?	1189-1247	1247	County of Pyrmont	Kunigunda of Limmer (d.1239) six children
Adolph I		c. 1190	1214-1270	3 October 1270	County of Waldeck	Sophie (d.1254) two children Ethelind of Lippe (1204-1273) 14 February 1254 no children	Children of Henry I, divided the land.
Volkwin III		c. 1190	1214-1255	c. 1255	County of Schwalenberg	Ermengard of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (d.22 March 1274) 14 February 1254 twelve children
Henry III[8]		1225	c. 1250-1267	1267	County of Waldeck	Matilda of Cuyk-Arnsberg (1235-13 August 1298) four children	Co-ruled with his father Adolph I, but predeceased him.
Gottschalk II		?	1247-1262	1258/62	County of Pyrmont	Beatrice of Hallermund (d.1272) five children	Children of Gottschalk I, ruled jointly.
Herman I		?	1247-1265	May 1265	County of Pyrmont	Hedwig (d.20 June 1262) two children
Widekind I		?	1255-1264	28 September 1264	County of Schwalenberg	Unknown c. 1246 Ermengard c. 1250 Unknown c. 1260 two children (in total)	Elder children of Volkwin III, divided the land. Widekind didn't have children and his part was inherited by his younger brothers, while Henry I ruled independently at Sternberg and passed it to his own descendants.
Henry I		?	1255-1279	1279	County of Sternberg	? of Woldenberg two children
Adolph		?	1264-1305	26 January 1305	County of Schwalenberg	Adelaide (d.6 July 1274) Jutta (d.1 April 1305)	Younger children of Volkwin III, ruled jointly.
Albert		c. 1190	1264-1317	After 5 February 1317	County of Schwalenberg	Jutta of Rosdorf (d.aft.1 April 1305) 14 February 1254 twelve children
Herman II		?	1265-1328	25 November 1328	County of Pyrmont	Luitgard of Waldeck- Schwalenberg (d.14 September 1317) five children	Children of Gottschalk II and Herman I, ruled jointly. Herman III was a son of Herman I, and cousin of the other two rulers, sons of Gottschalk I.
Gottschalk III		?	1265-1279	1279	County of Pyrmont	Unmarried
Herman III		?	c. 1265	c. 1265	County of Pyrmont	Unmarried
Adolph II		1258	1270-1276	13 December 1302	County of Waldeck	Unmarried	Abdicated in 1276 to his brother Otto, after a dispute with him and his other brothers on who would marry Sophia of Hesse, daughter of Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse, which Otto won, resulting in Adolph's resignation. Entering in clergy, Adolph eventually became Bishop of Liège (1301-1302).
Otto I		1262	1276-1305	11 November 1305	County of Waldeck	Sophia of Hesse (1264-1340) 1276 nine children	Inherited the county as prize from his brothers after being chosen to marry Sophia of Hesse.
Hoyer I		1252	1279-1303	1303	County of Sternberg	Agnes of Lippe (1251-aft.1307)five children
Henry II		?	1303-1318	8 January 1318	County of Sternberg	Jutta of Tecklenburg (d.bef. 8 January 1318) five children
Henry IV		1282	1305-1348	1 May 1348	County of Waldeck	Adelaide of Cleves (d.1327) 1304 six children
Henry II[9]		?	1317-1349	11 April 1349	County of Schwalenberg	Elisabeth of Wölpe (d. 2 February 1336) nine children Matilda of Rietberg (d.25 April 1400) 1342/45 one child
Henry III		?	1318-1346	1346	County of Sternberg	Hediwg of Diepholz (d.aft.1335) bef.14 September 1330 four children	Children of Hoyer II, ruled jointly.
Hoyer II		?	1318-1320	1320	County of Sternberg	Unmarried
Gottschalk IV		1289	1328-1342	24 February 1342	County of Pyrmont	Adelaide of Homburg (d.11 October 1341) six children	Children of Herman II, ruled jointly.
Henry I		?	1328-c. 1330	c. 1330	County of Pyrmont	Unmarried
Herman IV		1310	1328-1334	1334	County of Pyrmont	Unmarried
Henry II		?	1342-1390	1390	County of Pyrmont	Unknown three children	Children of Gottschalk IV, ruled jointly.
Gottschalk V		?	1342-1355	1355	County of Pyrmont	Unmarried
Herman V		?	1342-1360	1360	County of Pyrmont	Oda (d.1360) no children/ three children
Herman VI		?	1342-1377	1377	County of Pyrmont	Unmarried
Henry IV		?	1346-1385	1385	County of Sternberg	Adelaide of Holstein-Pinneberg (c. 1330-bef. 21 May 1376) 1348 two children
Otto II		c. 1305	1348-1369	11 November 1369	County of Waldeck	Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d.1355) 27 August 1339 two children Margaret of Löwenberg no children
Henry III		?	1349-1356	After 19 December 1369	County of Schwalenberg	Unmarried	Sold his estates to Waldeck in 1356, and pursued a religious life.
Schwalenberg reabsorbed in Waldeck
Henry VI of Iron[10]		c. 1340	1369-1397	16 February 1397	County of Waldeck	Elizabeth of Berg (c. 1340-4 October 1388) 16 December 1363 seven children
John		?	1385-1402	1402	County of Sternberg	Unmarried	Left no heirs. The county was annexed to Waldeck.
Sternberg annexed to Waldeck
Henry III		?	1390-1429	1429	County of Pyrmont	Pelek two children Haseke of Spiegelberg (d.22 March 1465) two children	Son of Henry II (or according to other sources, son of Herman V).
Henry VII[11]		c. 1370	1397-c. 1445	After 1442 (c. 1445?)	County of Waldeck	Margaret of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1380-aft.1435) 27 August 1398 three children	Children of Henry VI, divided the land.
Adolph III		1362	1397-1431	After 19 April 1431	County of Landau	Agnes of Ziegenhain (d.aft.26 December 1438) 1387 one child
Henry IV		?	1429-1478	1478	County of Pyrmont	Unmarried	Children of Gottschalk II, ruled jointly.
Maurice		1418	1429-1494	1494	County of Pyrmont	Margaret of Nassau-Beilstein (d.27 December 1498) 1462 no children
Inherited by the Spiegelberg family (1494-1557), the House of Lippe (1557-1583) and the Gleichen family (1583-1625) Definitely annexed to Waldeck-Wildungen (from 1625)
Otto III		1389	1431-1459	1459	County of Landau	Anna of Oldenburg (d.aft.7 April 1438) 1424 three children
Wolrad I		1399	c. 1445-1475	After 1 February 1475	County of Waldeck	Barbara of Wertheim (1420-aft.1443) Bef.9 March 1440 three children
Otto IV		1440	1459-1495	14 October 1495	County of Landau	Matilda of Neuenahr (d.26 May 1465) 16 January 1464 one child Elisabeth of Tecklenburg (d.aft.1499) 1465 no children
Landau annexed by Eisenberg
Philip I		1445	1475	1475	County of Waldeck	Joanne of Nassau-Siegen 16 August 1452 or 14 October 1464 one child	Children of Wolrad I. Philip I died months after his father. Philip II ruled at first as regent of his nephew, and then divided the land with him, in 1486.
Philip II		3 March 1453	1486-1524	16 October 1524	County of Eisenberg	Catherine of Solms-Lich (1458-12 December 1492) 3 November 1478 six children Catherine of Querfurt (1450-22 February 1521) 1497 no children
Regency of Philip II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1475-1486)
Henry VIII[12]		1465	1475-1513	28 May 1513	County of Waldeck (1475–86) County of Wildungen (1486-1513)	Anastasia of Runkel (d.24 April 1503) Aft. 8 January 1492 three children
Philip IV[13]		1493	1513-1574	30 November 1574	County of Wildungen	Margaret of East Frisia (1500-15 July 1537) 17 February 1523 Emden nine children Catherine of Hatzfeld (d.1546) 1539 no children Jutta of Isenburg-Grenzau (d.28 July 1564) 6 October 1554 two children
Philip III the Elder		9 December 1486	1524-1539	20 June 1539	County of Eisenberg	Adelaide of Hoya (d.11 April 1513) 20 November 1503 Bad Wildungen four children Anna of Cleves (21 May 1495 – 24 May 1567) 22 January 1519 Kleve four children
Wolrad II the Scholar		27 March 1509	1539-1575	15 April 1575	County of Eisenberg	Anastasia Günthera of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (31 March 1526 – 1 April 1570) 6 June 1546 Waldeck thirteen children	Children of Philip III, divided the land, by mediation of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse: the children from Philip III's first marriage, Wolrad and Otto, kept Waldeck, while the sons from the second marriage, John, Philip and Francis, inherited Landau. For the children who are usually said that did not reign (Otto, Philip and Francis), they are sometimes treated as Waldeck-Eisenberg (in the case of Otto) and Waldeck-Landau (cases of Philip V and Francis), which are the parts the called reigning brothers actually ruled, which may imply a level of co-regency between the brothers: Otto joined the Order of St. John in 1539, and abdicated in the same year of his father's death, which seems to imply that he reigned in that year.[14] Philip V, like Otto, may have reigned,[14] even if for only a few months, in Landau, together with his brother John I. Also, at the time of the division, Philip was not exercising any clerical position (was canon at Mainz in 1530, and then reappears as canon in Cologne in 1544[15]), which would possibly extend a co-rulership that ended with Philip resuming his religious life at Cologne. The same can be said for Francis, who was taken by Anne of Cleves to England in 1540. Given that he is documented starting his religious career only in 1549, nothing seems to oppose a brief co-rulership of Francis in 1539–40, before his trip to England.
Otto V		1504	1539	8 March 1541	County of Eisenberg	Unmarried
John I the Pious		1521	1539-1567	9 April 1567	County of Landau	Anna of Lippe (1529-24 November 1590) 1 October 1550 Detmold eight children
Philip V the Deaf		1519	1539-c. 1544?	5 March 1584	County of Landau	Elisabeth von Elsen (d. 12 June 1584) 27 June 1576 Hückeswagen no children
Francis II[16]		1526	1539-c. 1540?	29 July 1574	County of Landau	Maria Gogreve (d.1580) 1563 no children
Philip VI the Younger		4 October 1551	1567-1579	9 November 1579	County of Landau	Unmarried	Children of John I, ruled jointly. As neither of them left descendants, Landau was reabsorbed in Eisenberg.
Francis III[17]		27 June 1553	1567-1597	12 March 1597	County of Landau	Unmarried
Landau was reabsorbed into Eisenberg
Daniel		1 August 1530	1574-1577	7 June 1577	County of Wildungen	Barbara of Hesse 11 November 1568 Kassel no children	Left no heirs, and was succeeded by his brother Henry.
Josias I		18 March 1554	1575-1588	6 August 1588	County of Eisenberg	Maria of Barby-Mühlingen (8 April 1563 – 29 December 1619) 8 March 1582 four children	Children of Wolrad II, ruled jointly.
Wolrad III		16 June 1563	1575-1587	12 November 1587	County of Eisenberg	Unmarried
Henry IX[18]		10 December 1531	1577	3 October 1577	County of Wildungen	Anna of Viermund-Nordenbeck (1538-1599) 19 December 1563 Korbach no children	Died shortly after his brother, and didn't have children as well.
Gunther		19 June 1557	1577-1585	23 May 1585	County of Wildungen	Margaret of Waldeck-Landau (1559-20 October 1580) 15 December 1578 Bad Wildungen no children Margaret of Gleichen (28 May 1556 – 14 January 1619) 20 May 1582 Gräfentonna one child	His second marriage brought the county of Bad Pyrmont back to Waldeck control.
Regency of Margaret of Gleichen (1585-1598)							His death determined the extinction of the main branch of the House of Waldeck.
William Ernest		8 June 1584	1585-1598	16 September 1598	County of Wildungen	Umarried
Wildungen briefly annexed to Eisenberg
Wolrad IV		7 June 1588	1588-1640	6 October 1640	County of Eisenberg	Anna of Baden-Durlach (13 June 1587 – 11 March 1649) 8 September 1607 Durlach ten children	Children of Josias I, divided the land. Christian took Wildungen for himself after its annexation in 1598.
Christian		25 December 1585	1607-1637	31 December 1637	County of Wildungen	Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen (8 November 1584 – 26 July 1661) 18 November 1604 Bad Wildungen fifteen children
Philip VII		25 November 1613	1637-1645	24 February 1645	County of Wildungen	Anna Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein (2 July 1610 – 1 December 1650) 26 October 1634 Frankfurt am Main six children
Philip Theodore		2 November 1614	1640-1645	7 December 1645	County of Eisenberg	Maria Magdalena of Nassau-Siegen (21 October 1622 – 30 August 1647) 25 August 1639 Culemborg two children
Regency of George Frederick, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1645-1659)							Left no heirs, and was succeeded by his uncle and previous regent.
Henry Wolrad		28 March 1642	1645-1664	15 July 1664	County of Eisenberg	Juliane Elisabeth of Waldeck-Wildungen (1637-1707) no children
Regencies of Anna Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1645-1660) and Henry Wolrad, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1659-1660)							Children of Philip VII, ruled jointly.
Christian Louis		29 July 1635	1645-1706	12 December 1706	County of Wildungen (1645–92) County of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1692-1706)	Anna Elisabeth of Rappoltstein (7 March 1644 – 6 December 1676) 2 July 1658 fifteen children Johanna of Nassau-Saarbrücken-Idstein (14 September 1657 – 14 March 1733) 6 June 1680 Idstein ten children
Josias II		2 July 1636	1645-1669	8 August 1669	County of Wildungen	Wilhelmine Christine of Nassau-Siegen (10 July 1629 – 22 January 1700) 26 January 1660 Arolsen seven children
George Frederick		31 January 1620	1664-1692	19 November 1692	County of Eisenberg (1664–82) Principality of Eisenberg (1682–92)	Elisabeth Charlotte of Nassau-Siegen (11 March 1626 – 16 November 1694) 29 November 1643 Culemborg nine children	In 1682, he received the title of Prince. Left no surviving male heirs. The principality was inherited by Wildungen, which was kept as a county until a few years later.
Eisenberg (except Culemborg) was definitely annexed to Wildungen
Louise Anna		18 April 1653	1692-1714	30 June 1714	County of Eisenberg (at Culemborg)	George IV, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau 22 August 1671 Arolsen four children	Kept the lordship of Culemborg. As she survived all her children, the lordship was inherited, after her death, by her nephew, Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Culemborg was inherited by Saxe-Hildburghausen
Frederick Anton Ulrich		26 November 1676	1706-1728	1 January 1728	County of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1706–12) Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1712–28)	Louise of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (28 October 1678 – 3 May 1753) 22 October 1700 Hanau eleven children	Children of Christian Louis. Frederick Anton was elevated in 1712 to hereditary prince by Emperor Charles VI. On 30 September 1695, their father had changed the primogeniture house law of the Waldeck house, which he had enacted in 1685 and modified in 1687, insofar as he issued a paragium under the established suzerainty of the ruling line of the house, consisting of the three villages of Bergheim, Königshagen and Welle. This paragium, or vassal line, was inherited by Christian Louis' second son, Josias I.
Josias I		20 August 1696	1706-1763	2 February 1763	County of Bergheim	Dorothea Sophia Wilhelmine zu Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (27 January 1698 – 6 February 1774) 17 January 1825 seven children
Christian Philip		13 October 1701	1728	17 May 1728	Waldeck and Pyrmont	Unmarried	Survived his father for a few months, and left no descendants. He was succeeded by his brother.
Charles August		24 September 1704	1728-1763	29 August 1763	Waldeck and Pyrmont	Christiane Henriette of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld 19 August 1741 Zweibrücken seven children
Frederick Charles August		25 October 1743	1763-1812	24 September 1812	Waldeck and Pyrmont	Unmarried	Left no heirs and was succeeded by his brother.
George		20 July 1732	1763-1771	9 April 1771	County of Bergheim	Christine of Isenburg-Meerholz (22 November 1742 – 20 March 1808) 31 August 1766 no children	Left no heirs and was succeeded by his brother.
Josias II		16 October 1733	1771-1788	4 January 1788	County of Bergheim	Christine Wilhelmine of Isenburg-Büdingen (24 June 1756 – 13 November 1826) 5 March 1772 no children
Josias III		13 May 1774	1788-1829	9 June 1829	County of Bergheim	Wilhelmine of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (23 April 1774 – 25 June 1817) 10 January 1802 no children	Left no heirs and was succeeded by his brother.
George I		6 May 1747	1812-1813	9 September 1813	Waldeck and Pyrmont	Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1 February 1768 – 26 December 1849) 12 September 1784 Otterwisch three children	Brother of the previous.
George II		20 September 1789	1813-1845	15 May 1845	Waldeck and Pyrmont	Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym 26 June 1823 Schaumburg five children
Charles		17 November 1778	1829-1849	21 January 1849	County of Bergheim	Karoline Schilling von Canstatt (2 February 1798 – 7 October 1866) 25 April 1819 six children
Regency of Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1845-1858)
George Victor		14 January 1831	1845-1893	12 May 1893	Waldeck and Pyrmont	Helena of Nassau 26 September 1853 Wiesbaden seven children Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 29 April 1891 Luisenlund one child
Adalbert I		19 February 1833	1849-1893	24 July 1893	County of Bergheim	Agnes Karolina of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (18 April 1834 – 18 February 1886) 3 August 1858 seven children Ida Charlotte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (25 February 1837 – 7 May 1922) 18 October 1887 no children
Frederick		20 January 1865	1893-1918	26 May 1946	Waldeck and Pyrmont	Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe 9 August 1895 Náchod four children	Brother of Queen Emma of the Netherlands. Abolition of the monarchy in 1918.
Adalbert II		6 January 1863	1893-1918	23 February 1934	County of Bergheim	Unmarried	Abolition of the monarchy in 1918.