Eichstätt

Eichstätt was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, centered on the town of Eichstätt in Franconia. In 1337 its bishop was Heinrich V Schenk von Reicheneck, who had been excommunicated after accepting imperial regalia from Louis IV in 1334.

Eichstätt joined the Catholic League in 1617 and became a center of the Counter-Reformation and witch trials. Secularized in 1803, it passed to Bavaria after the 1805 Treaty of Pressburg. In 1817 Bavaria recreated the principality for Eugène de Beauharnais.