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and bore this name in their title. However, an orthographic error crept in and it was not until an edict of 6 December 1780 that Count
Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode corrected the hitherto erroneous name of Aigmont to Agimont.
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891:(1672–1738 in Stolberg) was a German regent
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634:(1504–1574), imperial abbess of Quedlinburg
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