Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (27 September 1763 – 4 July 1814) was the reigning
Fürst
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of the
Principality of Leiningen. After his death, his widow,
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, married
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
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, fourth son of
George III of the United Kingdom
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, and her only child from that marriage was
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom.
Biography
Background
Emich Carl was born at
Dürckheim, the fourth child and only son of
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg and 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 (, , cf. ''Fürst'') was a title attributed to a hereditary ruler, nobleman or prelate recognised by the Holy Roman Emperor.
Definition
Originally, possessors of the princely title bore it as immediate vassal ...
, and Emich Carl became Hereditary
Prince of Leiningen. On 9 January 1807, he succeeded his father as second Prince of Leiningen.
Marriages and issue
Emich Carl was married firstly, on 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 Confederation ...
(1767-1801), youngest daughter of
Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf and his wife, Countess
Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg. Henriette died on 3 September 1801. Emich Carl and Henrietta had 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, fourth daughter of
Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by his wife,
Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf. His second wife was a niece of his late wife. They had 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-Thumburg (1806-1880), 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, and had issue.
Death and succession
Emich Carl died at
Amorbach on 1814, and was succeeded by their only surviving son, Carl Friedrich.
Post-mortem connections
Four years after his death, his widow married
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, 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 Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great ...
. They had a daughter,
Princess Victoria of Kent, 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
* https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/420728/emich-charles-prince-of-leiningen-1763-1814
*
*royal collection https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/2/collection/420728/emich-charles-prince-of-leiningen-1763-1814
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1763 births
1814 deaths
People from Bad Dürkheim
Emich Carl
Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen
