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Castell-Castell Castell-Castell was a county in the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a branch of the Counts of Castell. It was established as a partition of Castell-Remlingen in 1668, and it was partitioned between itself and Castell in 1709. It annexed the County of ...

, father =Count Otto Friedrich of Castell-Castell , mother =Princess Amélie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , birth_date = , birth_place = Langenzell, Wiesenbach,

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, death_date =
(or November 8, 1941) , death_place =

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near

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Count ''Luitpold'' Alfred Friedrich Karl of Castell-Castell (german: Luitpold Alfred Friedrich Karl Graf zu Castell-Castell) (born November 14, 1904 in Langenzell, Wiesenbach,

; died November 6 or 8, 1941 in

near

) was a

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in the

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during

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and a member of the extended

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through his marriage to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark. Luitpold was a Count of Castell-Castell and a member of the Comital House of Castell-Castell.

Family

Luitpold was born on November 14, 1904 in Langenzell, Wiesenbach,

and was the eldest child and son of Count Otto Friedrich of Castell-Castell and his wife, Princess Amélie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg.

Marriage and issue

Luitpold's

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to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, third child and daughter of

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and his wife

Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg '' , reign = , title = Princess Harald of Denmark , house = Glücksburg , spouse = , issue = Feodora, Princess Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe Caroline-Mathilde, Hereditary Princess of Denmark Alexandrine-Louise, Countess Luitpold of Castell-Ca ...

, was announced on August 24, 1936 by special permission of Alexandrine-Louise's uncle

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. Until the announcement, Alexandrine-Louise had been frequently mentioned as a possible queen consort to

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. The couple met for the first time in

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during the

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. Following their first meeting, Luitpold and Alexandrine-Louise spent nearly every day together. Before her departure from Berlin, Luitpold proposed marriage and Alexandrine-Louise accepted. At the time of their engagement announcement, Luitpold was a

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residing in

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. Luitpold and Alexandrine-Louise were married on January 22, 1937 at

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Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

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of the wedding on

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is preserved by the

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in their

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for nitrate film at Store Dyrehave in

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Karin Bonde Johansen regarding the scenes captured by the film, "the atmosphere looks cheerful and wild looking, but unfortunately there is no audio to the footage." Luitpold and Alexandrine-Louise had three children: * Countess ''Amélie'' Alexandrine Helene Caroline Mathilde Pauline of Castell-Castell (b. Berlin May 25, 1938); m. Hochburg (civil) September 3, 1965 (religious) September 5, 1965 Oscar Ritter von Miller zu Aichholz (b. Vienna July 7, 1934) * Countess ''Thyra'' Antonie Marie-Therese Feodora Agnes of Castell-Castell (b. Berlin September 14, 1939); m. Copenhagen November 3, 1961 Karl Moritz Moes (b. Copenhagen October 17, 1937) * Count ''Otto-Luitpold'' Gustav Friedrich Christian Harald Carl Castell-Castell (b. Berlin March 13, 1942 – d. Berlin March 19, 1943)

Military service and death

Luitpold was a

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in the German Army during

. He died of his injuries from an

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crash in action at a

military hospital A military hospital is a hospital owned and operated by a military. They are often reserved for the use of military personnel and their dependents, but in some countries are made available to civilians as well. They may or may not be located on a ...

near

on November 6 or 8, 1941 at the age of 36. Luitpold was

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at Bankya, and reinterred in the Castell-Castell family plot at the

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Ancestry

References

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Wedding photograph of Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell and Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark
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