| County of Sponheim-Sayn | ||||||||||||
| Grafschaft Sponheim-Sayn | ||||||||||||
| State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||
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| Capital | Not specified | |||||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||||
| • | Partitioned from Sponheim-Eberstein |
1261 | ||||||||||
| • | Partitioned in twain | 1283 | ||||||||||
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Sponheim-Sayn was a County of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was created as a partition of Sponheim-Starkenburg in 1261, and it comprised the lands of the former County of Sayn. In 1283, it was divided into Sayn and Sayn-Homburg.