page_title: Leiningen family
section_title: Leiningen-Hardenburg
hierarchical_section_title: Leiningen family / History / Leiningen-Hardenburg
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: gebaseerd op Wilhelm Winkler, Pfälzischer Geschichtsatlas. (1935), kaart van 1789 terug bewerkt naar het moment dat het graafschap Falkenburg nog bestond.
context_page_description: Leiningen is the name of an old German noble family whose lands lay principally in Alsace, Lorraine and the Palatinate. Various branches of this family developed over the centuries and ruled counties with Imperial immediacy.
  Most of these counties were annexed by the First French Republic in 1793, after French troops conquered the Left Bank of the Rhine during the War of the First Coalition. Several family branches subsequently received secularized abbeys as compensation, but shortly afterwards, these new counties were mediatized and the family lost its immediacy. Today, the only existing branch is that of the Princes of Leiningen.
context_section_description: Meanwhile, the younger branch of the Leiningens, known as the family of Leiningen-Hardenburg, was flourishing. On 27 June 1560, this branch was divided into the lines of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg, founded by Count Johann Philip (d. 1562), and Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim or Falkenburg, founded by Count Emicho (d. 1593).
  In 1658 Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg divided into 
  Leiningen-Dagsburg (extinct 1706)
  Leiningen-Heidesheim (extinct 1766)
  Leiningen-Guntersblum (extinct 1774)
  The county of Leiningen-Dagsburg was inherited by Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg in 1774.
  Leiningen-Guntersblum was divided between two further side branches: 
  Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg-Guntersblum, which was deprived of its lands on the left bank of the Rhine by France, but in 1803 received Billigheim as a compensation, then called Leiningen-Billigheim. In 1845 they also acquired  Neuburg Castle at Obrigheim. The branch became extinct in 1925.
  Leiningen-Heidesheim, which in 1803 received Neudenau and became known as Leiningen-Neudenau (extinct in 1910).
  In 1779, the head of the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg line was raised to the rank of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire with the title of Prince of Leiningen. In 1801, this line was deprived of its lands on the left bank of the Rhine by France, but in 1803 it received Amorbach Abbey as an ample compensation for these losses. A few years later, the Principality of Leiningen at Amorbach was mediatized, and its territory is now included mainly in Baden, but partly in Bavaria and in Hesse. Amorbach Abbey is still today the family seat of the Prince of Leiningen.
  The second prince of the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg line, Prince Emich Charles, married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After his death in 1814, the princess married Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, a younger son of George III of the United Kingdom, by whom she became the mother of the reigning British Queen Victoria.
  Since 1991, the head of the princely line has been Prince Andreas (b. 1955). 
  His eldest brother, Prince Karl Emich was excluded from succession after he married morganatically.
caption: map of the counties in 1774
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