Johann Reinhard II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

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Count Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg was a younger son of Count Philipp Wolfgang of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1595–1641) and Countess Johanna of Oettingen-Oettingen.

Count Johann Reinhard II, engraving by Peter Aubrey, Strasbourg

Hanau-Lichtenberg

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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. Following the extinction of the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1736 it went to Hesse-Darmstadt, minor parts of it to the Hesse-Cassel. Its centre was in the lower Alsace, the capital first Babenhausen, later Buchsweiler.

Boundary marker between the Duchy of Lorraine and Hanau-Lichtenberg, installed in 1608

The portion of Hanau-Lichtenberg (in blue) within Alsace at the time it was annexed by France in 1680

Philip I (the Elder), progenitor of the line of Hanau-Lichtenberg on his epitaph in the municipal church of St. Nicholas in Babenhausen

Lichtenberg Castle from a Merian copperplate