Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a County, and later Principality in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The name Hohenlohe derives from the castle of Hohenloch near Uffenheim in Mittelfranken, which came into the possession of the descendants of Conrad of Weikersheim by 1178.^[1]

Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was partitioned from the lands held by the descendants of Kraft von Hohenlohe, who was made an Imperial count in 1450.^[1] The Hohenlohe territories were divided between the brothers Count Ludwig Kasimir (1517-1568) (of the senior Neuenstein line, progenitors of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Hohenlohe-Oehringen branches) and Count Eberhard (1535-1570), founder of the various Hohenlohe-Waldenburg branches.^[1]

The Schillingsfürst line descends from Count Ludwig Gustav (1634-1697), whose descendant Philip Ernest obtained the erection of his fiefs into a principality within the Holy Roman Empire, enjoying Imperial immediacy, in 1744.^[1] The county of Waldenburg was added to the principality in 1757. It was mediatised to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806.

Three branches are extant – those of Waldenburg, Ratibor und Corvey, and Schillingsfürst.^[1] The members of the house bear the style of "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst" or "Prince/Princess von Ratibor und Corvey, Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst" or "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, von Ratibor und Corvey" or "Prince/Princess von Ratibor und Corvey" or "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, von Ratibor und Corvey", depending upon which of the four sub-lines of the Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst branch they belong to.^[1]

• Ludwig Gustav 1688-1697
• Philip Ernest 1697-1744 (became 1st Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst)

The following are the princes from 1744 until the present:^[1]

• Hohenlohe
• Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg

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