Editing Wiesbaden (section)

===Middle Ages===
After the [[Franks]] under [[Clovis I]] defeated the Alamanni in the [[Battle of Tolbiac]] in 496, the Franks eventually displaced the Alamanni in the Wiesbaden area over the course of the 6th century. In the 8th century, Wiesbaden became the site of a royal [[palace]] of the Frankish kingdom. The first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by [[Einhard]], the biographer of [[Charlemagne]], whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime between 828 and 830.

When the Frankish [[Carolingian Empire]] broke up in 888, Wiesbaden was in the eastern half, called [[East Francia]] (which would evolve into the [[Holy Roman Empire]]). The town was part of [[Franconia]], the heartland of East Francia. In the 1170s, the [[Count]] of [[Nassau (state)|Nassau]], Walram I, received the area around Wiesbaden as a [[fiefdom]]. When Franconia fragmented in the early 13th century, Nassau emerged as an independent state as part of the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1232 Wiesbaden became a [[Reichsstadt]], an imperial city, of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1242, during the war of Emperor [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]] against the Pope, the [[Archbishopric of Mainz|Archbishop of Mainz]], [[Siegfried III (Archbishop of Mainz)|Siegfried III]], ordered the city's destruction.

Wiesbaden returned to the control of the [[House of Nassau]] in 1270 under Count [[Walram II, Count of Nassau]]. However, Wiesbaden and the castle at [[Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg|Sonnenberg]] were again destroyed in 1283 in conflict with [[Eppstein]].

Walram's son and successor [[Adolf, King of the Romans|Adolf]] would later become king of [[Kingdom of Germany|Germany]] from 1292 until 1298. In 1329, under Adolf's son [[Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden|Gerlach I of Nassau-Weilburg]] the House of Nassau and thereby, Wiesbaden, received the right of [[currency|coinage]] from Holy Roman Emperor [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Louis the Bavarian]].

In 1355, the County of Nassau-Weilburg was divided among the sons of Gerlach. The County of Nassau's holdings would be subdivided many times among heirs, with the parts being brought together again whenever a line died out. Wiesbaden became the seat of the County of Nassau-Wiesbaden under Count Adolf I (1307–1370), eldest son of Gerlach. It would eventually fall back to Nassau-Weilburg in 1605.