Wilhelm (Leuchtenberg)

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Wilhelm (born January 3, 1586 ; † March 20, 1634 in Ingolstadt ) was Landgrave of Leuchtenberg from 1614 to 1621.

Wilhelm was the opposite of his father . He spent a lot of money and took whatever he liked from the Leuchtenberg slopes . That led to a quarrel with his father. After first moving to his wife Erika in Manderscheid, Wilhelm moved to Grünsfeld after his father's death before he also regained the reign of Leuchtenberg. During this time he is said to have even killed someone intoxicated. After the death of his wife, he entered a Franciscan monastery. He gave two of his three sons to the education of Albrecht VI. but he continued to behave inappropriately for his position and incurred many debts.

After the battle on the White Mountain near Prague, Count von Mansfeld had withdrawn to the Upper Palatinate and pillaged Pfreimd before he withdrew from the Landgraviate in 1621 to withdraw to the Rhine Palatinate . Landgrave Wilhelm was taken to Amberg by the Protestants and imprisoned.

Freed again, he was finally arrested in Kelheim in 1621 on the orders of Maximilian I and taken behind prison and monastery walls. Maximilian had shortly before taken the Palatinate Upper Palatinate. Until 1628 Duke Maximilian I took over the administration of the country. Initially in the dungeon and monastery in Burghausen, Wilhelm was later held in various monasteries (Chiemsee, Augsburg, Zabern, Pfreimd, Ingolstadt) before he died in 1634. Two of his sons had died of epidemics shortly before him as officers in the imperial army.

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Ludwig	Landgrave of Leuchtenberg 1614–1621	Maximilian Adam