Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg was an imperial lordship in Lower Alsace, centered on its family castle near Strasbourg. Around 1330 its inheritance was divided between John II, head of the elder line in 1337, and Louis III.
By the fifteenth century the family held over two hundred villages and thirty castles. Its last lords left no sons; heiresses brought the lands to the counts of Hanau-Babenhausen and Zweibrücken-Bitsch, who divided them in 1480. The inheritance was reunited under Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1570; its castle surrendered to French troops in 1678.
Characters
- Elisabeth of Baden
- Heinrich II von Lichtenberg
- Johann I von Lichtenberg the Elder
- Johann II von Lichtenberg
- Johanna von Leiningen
- Ludwig I von Lichtenberg
- Ludwig II von Lichtenberg