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GERMANY. [Hanau-Licht.
T'he
Lordship of
HANAU-LICHTENBERG.
§. I. 'TpHE lordfhip of Lichtenberg lies, for the mofl part, in Upper-
-^ Aljhce. An accurate delineation of it may be feen in the beautiful
map of Alface, as publiflied by Ho}na?2}is heirs, which makes the
ninety-eighth in the Atlas of Gcrmzny.
§. 2. This lordfhip formerly enjoyed lords of its own, who failed in the
year 1481 in the perlbn of famcs^ lord of hichtenberg-., on which Anne
and Elizabeth, the furviving daughters of his brother Leivis, made a partition
of the eftate among themfelves. The former of thefe was married
to Philip the Elder, count of Hanau, who thus became proprietor of one
half of the lordfhip of Lichtenberg ; and his great-grandlbn, by his marriage
with Margaret Louifa, daughter to James I. count of Ochfenjtein
and Bitfch, arrived, in the year 1560, to the pofleflion of the other
half, devolved from Elizabeth. On the extinction of the male line of
Hanau- Miinzenberg, in the year 1642, by the deceafe of Count JoknErjifi,
the Lichtenberg line, by virtue of a compact made in the year 1610,
and the fupport of Hejfe-Caffel, obtained the whole county of Hanau-
Munzenberg; to which was tranfmitted not only the third, ceded to Count
Philip I. but alio the lordfhip of Lichtenberg. In the year 1680, Count
Frederick Cafimir of Hanau made over to his coufm, Count Philip Reinhard^
and the male-heirs of his body, the lordfhip of Hanau-Lichtenberg, but
retained the prefecturate of Babenhaufen as an ancient part of the county of
Hanau-Munzenberg. This count dying without heirs, and being fucceeded
in the county of Hanau-Munzenberg, by Count Philip Reitihard, the latter
conferred the lordfhip of Hanau-Lichtenberg on his brother Count John
Reinhard, who furviving him alfo became pofTefTor of the county of Hanau-
Munzenberg. His daughter, Charlotta Chrifti}ia Magdalena Johanna, was
married to Lewis, hereditary Prince of Heße-Darmftadt. The male-line of
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