 Barony of Bilstein

The Barony of Bilstein () was a dynastic lordship with extensive estates in the region of the present German states of Hesse and Thuringia.It probably began with Count Wigger I, whose name is recorded from 967 to 981 AD as having extensive comital rights and estates in the Germarmark march on the middle Werra (the area of Frieda and Eschwege), at Hainich (Bad Langensalza, Schlotheim, Mühlhausen and Oberdorla) and in the Obereichsfeld.