Leuchtenberg

Leuchtenberg was a small imperial landgraviate in the Upper Palatine Forest, ruled from Leuchtenberg Castle and later Pfreimd. Its lords had held the landgravial title since 1196.

The native house died out with Maximilian Adam in 1646, and the landgraviate passed to Albert VI of Bavaria. During the War of the Spanish Succession the emperor granted it to the Lamberg family from 1708 to 1714; the Peace of Rastatt returned it to Bavaria. Leuchtenberg was incorporated into Bavaria in 1808.