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Leuchtenberg.] GERMANY. 367<br />

l^he<br />

Princely Landgravate <strong>of</strong><br />

L E UCHTENBER G,<br />

S. i.'~r^HIS landgravate lies in the Nor^gau, being fituated betwixt<br />

* the principality <strong>of</strong> Sulzbach and the pfieg-amts oi Nabburg, Te~<br />

neshurg, and Ireiiviiz, in the upper palatinate, and belonging to the<br />

Eiedor <strong>of</strong> Bavaria. Formerly it had Landgraves <strong>of</strong> its own, the lafi: <strong>of</strong><br />

whom, by name Maximilian Adam, died without ifTue in 1646. Now<br />

though the Emperor Maxitnilian \. had granted the adminirtration <strong>of</strong> this<br />

landgravate to Duke Henry <strong>of</strong> Mecklenburg in the year 1502, yet Duke<br />

Albert <strong>of</strong> Bavaria^ who married Matilda fifber to the laft Landgrave, received<br />

the invefti'^ure <strong>of</strong> it as a fief in 1647; but with refpedt to the other<br />

places ceded them to his brother Maximilian Eb

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