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The first Waldgraves or Wildgraves (Latin: comites silvestres) descended from a division of the House of the Emichones in the year 1113.
When the italic=no (a countship named after the river Nahe) split into two parts in 1113, the counts of the two parts, belonging to the House of Salm, called themselves and , respectively. They were named after the geographic properties of their territories: Wildgrave (; ) after Wald ("forest"), and Raugrave (; ) after the rough (i.e. mountainous) terrain.
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