Maximilian Adam (Leuchtenberg)

Maximilian Adam (born October 17, 1611 ; † November 1, 1646 in Nördlingen ) was the last Landgrave of Leuchtenberg from 1621 to 1646.

First educated and trained in Würzburg and Munich (1621 graduation from the Jesuit grammar school (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich )), Max Adam did not take over the administration of the Leuchtenberg land until 1628, that of Grünsfeld not again until 1631. The landgrave's marriage to Maria Johanna von Helfenstein remained childless, the only successor died shortly after birth. Max Adam often changed his residence on his property, nevertheless he could not prevent the march of war peoples. The Piccolominian Horsemen in 1636 and the Swedes in 1641 were particularly devastating. After this complete destruction of his lands, Max Adam came into imperial service as commander of the city of Nördlingen and died in 1646 of dropsy. Thus the line of the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg was extinguished in the male line.

After the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg died out, Albrecht VI officially took over . , younger brother of the Bavarian Duke Maximilian I , reigned over the Landgraviate. He didn't call himself Landgrave, but Duke von Leuchtenberg. He had already received the entitlement to the Leuchtenberg fief in 1636. The city of Pfreimd as a fiefdom of the Electorate of the Palatinate fell to Elector Maximilian of Bavaria. The rule of Grünsfeld fell back to the Würzburg monastery . The County of Roussy was given to Count Karl von Manderscheid as a Luxembourg fief.

literature

• Christoph Maier: History of the Landgraves and Dukes of Leuchtenberg , Munich, 1841.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 156.

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm	Landgrave of Leuchtenberg 1621–1646	Albrecht (Duke)