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The County of Hanau-Lichtenberg was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged between 1456 and 1480 from a part of the County of Hanau and one half of the Barony of Lichtenberg.
The County of Hanau-Münzenberg was a territory within the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged when the County of Hanau was divided in 1458, the other part being the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Due to common heirs, both counties were merged from 1642 to 1685 and from 1712 to 1736. In 1736 the last member of the House of Hanau died and the Landgrave ...
In 1578 the Lutheran Church Order of Hanau-Lichtenberg was introduced in Hanau-Münzenberg as well. In this issue, Count Philipp Ludwig acted very carefully and did not follow, probably against his personal conviction, the more radical Calvinist model.
Jun 22, 2019 · The Hanau-Lichtenberg family was a German noble family, rulers of the Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg, who had extensive holdings in Alsace (Holy Roman Empire) in present day France and on the right bank of the Rhine River in present day Germany.  When this line was extinguished in 1736 its lands were transferred to Hesse-Darmstadt.
With the death of Count Johann Reinhard III. of Hanau, in 1736, the male line of Hanau ended. The lands of Hanau-Münzenberg fell to Landgrave William VIII. of Hesse-Cassel, based on an agreement of inheritance dated 1643, and Hanau-Lichtenberg was granted to Prince Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, who had been married to Reinhard’s only daughter Charlotte from 1717 until her death in 1726.
Jan 11, 2024 · The reason for this was that Hanau-Munzenberg has adopted Calvinism during the Reformation, but had been ruled since 1643 by the Lutheran counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg.
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Philipp III was born on 18 October 1482, the son of Philipp II, Graf von Hanau-Lichtenberg, and Gräfin Anna von Isenburg-Büdingen. He had a university education. Still in his father's lifetime, Philipp III had become involved in the Landshut war of succession (1503-1505) between Philipp 'der Aufrichtige', Kurfürst von der Pfalz, and Bavaria ...
