Johann Philipp of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German nobleman
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Place of Birth: Bouxwiller, Grand Est, France
About Johann Philipp of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- Count Johann Philipp of Hanau-Lichtenberg (13 January [O.S.
- 23 January] 1626 in Bouxwiller – 18 December 1669 in Babenhausen) was a son of Count Philipp Wolfgang (1595–1641) and his wife, Countess Johanna of Oettingen-Oettingen (1602–1639). During his childhood, his parents had to flee several times from their county seat in Bouxwiller to nearby Strasbourg, where the family possessed a mansion, to avoid the fighting of the Thirty Years' War.
- As the second son, he was assigned the castle and district of Babenhausen in his father's testament.
- He could only take possession of Babenhausen in 1647, as it had been occupied by Mainz during the war.
- After the war ended, Johann Philipp and his younger brother Johann Reinhard (1628–1666) went on a Grand Tour to Germany, the Netherlands, England, France and Switzerland. In 1664 Johann Philipp visited the Diet of Regensburg, where he got into a duel against a prince of House of Reuss.
- In 1669 he tried to stage a coup against his brother Friedrich Casimir who had burdened the county of Hanau with heavy debts and was trying to improve his financial situation by selling a part of his territory.
- Friedrich Casimir's relatives disagreed and in November 1669, they seized power during his absence.
- Their emergency government collapsed after three days and Friedrich Casimir was restored to power.
- Friedrich Casimir then exiled Johann Philipp from the city of Hanau. Johann Philipp died the next month, on 18 December 1669 and was buried in the St.
- Nikolaus church in Babenhausen, where his wife had been buried earlier.
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