House of Rapperswil

Lordship (County) of Rapperswil Herrschaft (Grafschaft) Rapperswil
1220–1464
Juliusbanner (1512) Coat of arms
Status	Lordship, County
Capital	Rapperswil
Government	Lordship, County
Historical era	Middle Ages, Early Modern period
• Rapperswil founded	1229 (official date)
• Lordship established	ca 1233 1220
• Inherited by counts of     Habsburg-Laufenburg	→ 1309–58
• Purchased liberty from     Austria	1415–58
• Allied with Habsburg     and Zürich     in the Old Zürich War	1440–46
• Condominium of the     Old Swiss Confederacy	→ 1458–1798
• Annexed to Helvetic     canton of Linth	→ 1798 1464
• Joined St Gallen	→ 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.