Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (27 September 1763 – 4 July 1814) was a German nobleman. He is an ancestor of various European royals, including
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. He ascended the throne on the death of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf, on 15 September 1973.
He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, D ...
,
Felipe VI of Spain
Felipe VI (;,
* eu, Felipe VI.a,
* ca, Felip VI,
* gl, Filipe VI, . Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain. He is the son of former King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, and ...
, and
Constantine II of Greece
Constantine II ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, ''Konstantínos II''; 2 June 1940) reigned as the last King of Greece, from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.
Constantine is the only son of King Paul a ...
. After his death, his widow,
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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, mother = Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf
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, birth_place = Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Holy Roman Empire
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, married a son of
George III of the United Kingdom
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
and became the mother of
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previ ...
.
Biography
Background
Emich Carl was born at
Dürckheim, the fourth child and only son of
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg by his wife Countess Christiane Wilhelmine Luise of
Solms-Rödelheim und Assenheim (1736–1803). On 3 July 1779, his father was made a
Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
Prince of the Holy Roman Empire ( la, princeps imperii, german: Reichsfürst, cf. ''Fürst'') was a title attributed to a hereditary ruler, nobleman or prelate recognised as such by the Holy Roman Emperor.
Definition
Originally, possessors o ...
, and Emich Carl became Hereditary
Prince of Leiningen
The title of Prince of Leiningen (german: Fürst zu Leiningen) was created by the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, who elevated Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg (a younger branch of the House of Leiningen) to the rank ...
. On 9 January 1807, he succeeded his father as second Prince of
Leiningen.
Marriages and issue
Emich Carl was married firstly, on 4 July 1787, to Countess Henriette Sophie of
Reuss-Ebersdorf
Reuss-Ebersdorf was a county and from 1806 a principality located in Germany. The Counts of Reuss-Ebersdorf belonged to the Reuss Junior Line. Reuss was successively a part of the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, German Confederatio ...
(1767-1801), youngest daughter of
Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf
Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf (22 January 1724, in Ebersdorf – 13 May 1779, in Ebersdorf), was ruler of the German county Reuss-Ebersdorf from 1747 until his death in 1779.
He was the eldest son of the thirteen children of Heinrich ...
, by his wife, Countess
Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg. Henriette died on 3 September 1801. By this marriage, Emich Carl had issue one son, who died young and within the lifetime of his mother, being:
*Prince ''Friedrich'' Karl Heinrich Ludwig of Leiningen (1 March 1793 – 22 February 1800)
On 21 December 1803, two years after the death of his first wife, Emich married
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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, father = Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
, mother = Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Holy Roman Empire
, death_date =
, death ...
, fourth daughter of
Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld en, Francis Frederick Anthony
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, father = Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
, mother = Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Coburg, ...
by his wife,
Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
Countess Augusta Caroline Sophie Reuss-Ebersdorf () (19 January 1757 – 16 November 1831), was by marriage the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was the maternal grandmother of Queen Victoria and the paternal grandmother of Albert, Prince ...
. His second wife was a niece of his late wife. She bore him two further children:
*
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich (12 September 1804 – 13 November 1856); succeeded his father as third prince; married on 13 February 1829, Countess Maria von
Klebelsberg zu Thumburg, and had issue.
*
Princess Anna ''Feodora'' Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine of Leiningen (7 December 1807 – 23 September 1872); married in 1828,
Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
, house =Hohenlohe-Langenburg
, father =Charles Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
, mother =Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms-Baruth
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, birth_place =Langenburg, Hohenlohe-Langenburg
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, and had issue. She is an ancestor of various European royals, including
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. He ascended the throne on the death of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf, on 15 September 1973.
He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, D ...
,
Felipe VI of Spain
Felipe VI (;,
* eu, Felipe VI.a,
* ca, Felip VI,
* gl, Filipe VI, . Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain. He is the son of former King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, and ...
, and
Constantine II of Greece
Constantine II ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, ''Konstantínos II''; 2 June 1940) reigned as the last King of Greece, from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.
Constantine is the only son of King Paul a ...
.
Death and succession
Emich Carl died at
Amorbach
Amorbach () is a town in the Miltenberg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany, with some 4,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the small river Mud, in the northeastern part of the Odenwald ...
on 4 July 1814, and was succeeded by his only surviving son, Carl Friedrich.
Post-mortem connections
Four years after his death, his widow was married to
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, (Edward Augustus; 2 November 1767 – 23 January 1820) was the fourth son and fifth child of King George III. His only legitimate child became Queen Victoria.
Prince Edward was created Duke of Kent an ...
, fourth son of King
George III of the United Kingdom
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
. By him, she had a single daughter,
Princess Victoria of Kent
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
, who would later become
Queen regnant of the United Kingdom.
Ancestry
Sources
* Thomas Gehrlein: ''Das Haus Leiningen. 900 Jahre Gesamtgeschichte mit Stammfolgen.'' Deutsche Fürstenhäuser. Heft 32. Börde Verlag, Werl 2011, , S. 25
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1763 births
1814 deaths
People from Bad Dürkheim
Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen
Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (27 September 1763 – 4 July 1814) was a German nobleman. He is an ancestor of various European royals, including Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Felipe VI of Spain, and Constantine II of Greece. After his death, his wi ...
Emich Carl
Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen
Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (27 September 1763 – 4 July 1814) was a German nobleman. He is an ancestor of various European royals, including Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Felipe VI of Spain, and Constantine II of Greece. After his death, his wi ...