Hanau Hanau () is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ...

is a town in Germany and

Lichtenberg Lichtenberg () is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen. Overview The district contains the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin's ...

is a village in Alsace, now France. This list of rulers of Hanau or Hanau-Lichtenberg covers the lords and later counts that ruled the area from the 14th through the 18th centuries (see also Lichtenberg Castle).

Lords of Hanau (1243–1429)

In 1429, Reinhard II was raised to

Imperial Count Imperial Count (german: Reichsgraf) was a title in the Holy Roman Empire. In the medieval era, it was used exclusively to designate the holder of an imperial county, that is, a fief held directly ( immediately) from the emperor, rather than from ...

Counts of Hanau (1429–1458)

In 1458, the county was divided in two parts, later named

Hanau-Münzenberg The County of Hanau-Münzenberg was a territory within the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged when the County of Hanau was divided in 1458, the other part being the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Due to common heirs, both counties were merged from 1642 t ...

and

Hanau-Lichtenberg 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 ...

Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg (1458–1736)

In 1736, Hanau-Münzenberg fell to Hesse-Kassel

Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1458–1736)

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, , Also known as "Philip the Elder" , - , , 1480–1504 , , Philipp II , - , , 1504–1538 , , Philipp III , - , , 1539–1590 , , Philipp IV , - , , 1590–1599 , , Philipp V , - , , 1599–1625 , , Johann Reinhard I , - , , 1625–1641 , , Philipp Wolfgang , - , , 1641–1680 , , Friedrich Casimir , , Also count of Hanau-Münzenberg , - , , 1680–1736 , , Johann Reinhard III , , Also count of Hanau-Münzenberg In 1736, Hanau-Lichtenberg fell to Hesse-Darmstadt

Han Han may refer to: Ethnic groups * Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group. ** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...

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