Toggenburg Succession

Toggenburg Succession, in Swiss history, a long territorial dispute that gave rise to the Old Zürich War (1436–50) and the Second Villmergen War (1712). In the Middle Ages the counts of Toggenburg, as vassals of the German kings or Holy Roman emperors, held extensive possessions in what is now northeastern Switzerland. When the male line of the dynasty died out in 1436, it left undecided the question of who would rule a large territory that...