Leuchtenberg

Leuchtenberg rises among the wooded hills of the Upper Palatinate, beneath the castle of the landgraves who bore its name. Recorded in 1124, the market town was the seat of higher and lower courts within their small principality. The family died out in 1714, and the landgraviate passed to the Elector of Bavaria, who added its title and arms to his own. In 1817 the Bavarian king gave Eugène de Beauharnais the title Duke of Leuchtenberg, without granting him the territory itself.