Principality of Eichstätt
The Principality of Eichstätt was a media rule in the Kingdom of Bavaria , which existed from 1817 to 1833 and comprised an area around Eichstätt with around 24,000 residents. The principality was owned by the Dukes of Leuchtenberg .
history
Eugène de Beauharnais , Napoleon's stepson and son-in-law of Maximilian I of Bavaria , was awarded the title of Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstätt by means of a royal document dated November 14 and a royal declaration of November 15, 1817 . He received the title of duke without any ownership ties; the mediation of a new principality formed from goods, rents and rights "in the area of Eichstädt" was carried out by a royal commissioner, government councilor Carl Joseph Hartmann . From then on, the new prince led a quiet life in Munich and at the summer residence of Schloss Ismaning until his death in 1824 . He only visited his principality with the residence of Eichstätt a few times, in particular to indulge in his passion for hunting in the vast forests of his principality. His son Auguste de Beauharnais , 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, negotiated for economic reasons since 1832 about the repurchase of the principality by Bavaria. In 1833 the Crown of Bavaria bought the principality back. In 1855, Bavaria finally acquired the remaining properties of the Leuchtenberg heirs for three million guilders .
Princes
- Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), 1817 Bavarian Duke of Leuchtenberg
- Auguste de Beauharnais (1810–1835), 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg since 1824, son of the previous one