and overlord of Fulda, who had offended the city by repeatedly raising taxes. In accordance with this treaty, the Abbey, its towns, and its church were raided and pillaged. The uprising was defeated, however, and John himself only escaped capture with difficulty. John and the city of Fulda were placed under the Imperial ban. Through the mediation of Archbishop Baldwin of Trier, a peace agreement was achieved in September 1331, but it only lasted until 1339, when John had paid off the fines that had been imposed on him. At the beginning of 1344, John attempted to exchange Nidda for the city of Neustadt, which had belonged to the County until Engelbert sold it to Mainz in 1294, in order to round out his territory in Ziegenhain and reconnect his estates on the Schwalm with those on the Wohra. This came to nothing, since in the same year, a new feud broke out between Landgrave Henry II of Hesse and Archbishop , in which John and his son Gottfried VII allied with the Landgrave, who then captured Neustadt castle. John found himself in such financial difficulty that he sold a quarter of the Castle and City of Nidda, along with their possessions, villages, people, and fiefs to the Archbishop of Mainz on 6 February 1344, with the consent of his son Gottfried (who had already received the Castle and City of Nidda, as well as Burggemünden and Staufenberg castle, from his father). On 5 May 1344, despite being deeply in debt, the Abbey of Fulda bought back all the remaining rights held by John over Fulda's Vogtei for 7,100 pounds in Heller. The full sum was paid in 1346. John retained only the hereditary role of Marshal of Fulda, which gave him the right to discipline the knights of Fulda, a seat in the local Landtag, and the right to call the feudatory nobles and ministeriales to arms. The rest of Nidda remained part of Ziegenhain until 1450, when both counties passed to the Landgraviate of Hesse. When the sons of Landgrave Philip I partitioned the Landgraviate in 1567, Nidda and its castle passed to Hesse-Marburg, and then to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1604. List of Counts of Nidda House Malsburg (ca. 1064–1205/06) Volkold I (ca. 1064-1097) Volkold II, son of Volkold I (1097-1130) Berthold I, son of Volkold II (1130-1162) Berthold II, son of Berthold I (1162-1205/06) House Ziegenhain (1206–1250) Louis