County of Sargans
The County of Sargans was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. From 1458 until the French Revolutionary War in 1798, Sargans became a condominium of the Old Swiss Confederacy, administered jointly by the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Lucerne, Zürich, Glarus and Zug.
County of Sargans Grafschaft Sargans | |||||||||||
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| 11th century? – 1798 | |||||||||||
Coat of arms of Sargans
Coat of arms of the
Werdenberg counts | |||||||||||
The County of Sargans, shown in turquoise – with the Imperial Abbey of Pfäfers, of which the counts were Vögte, protectors – in the south of this map of what became the canton of St. Gallen | |||||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire, Condominium of the Old Swiss Confederacy | ||||||||||
| Capital | Sargans | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
• Established | before 1200 11th century | ||||||||||
1396 | |||||||||||
← 1436 | |||||||||||
• Allied with Switzerland in the Old Zürich War | 1440–46 | ||||||||||
→ 1458–1798 | |||||||||||
| 1798 | |||||||||||
| February 19, 1803 | |||||||||||
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