Louis, Count Leiningen-Westerburg (1557–1622) was a German nobleman. He was a member of the

House of Leiningen The House of Leiningen is the name of an old German noble family whose lands lay principally in Alsace, Lorraine, Saarland, Rhineland, and the Palatinate. Various branches of this family developed over the centuries and ruled counties with Impe ...

and was the ruling count of Leiningen-Leiningen from 1597 until his death. He was the eldest son of Philip I (1527–1597), and his first wife Amelia of

Zweibrücken-Bitsch The County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (, ) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire that was created between 1286 and 1302 from the eastern part of the County of Zweibrücken and the Barony of Bitche (german: Bitsch) in Lorraine. It continued to exist ...

(1537–1577), a daughter of Count Simon V of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (d. 1540). His father was descended from the noble Leiningen-Westerburg family. House of Westerburg is a cadet branch of the House of Runkel. The County of Leiningen-Westerburg had been divided between Philip I and his brothers, and Philip I had founded the Leiningen-Leiningen line. By marrying Amelia, he had expanded his territory with her inheritance, the imperial county of Rixingen. Louis inherited this territory when his father died in 1597. In 1578, he married

Bernardine of Lippe Bernardine of Lippe (1563–1628) was a Countess of Lippe by birth and by marriage Countess of Leiningen-Leiningen. Background She was a daughter of Count Bernhard VIII of Lippe (1527–1563) from his marriage with Catherine (1524–1583), th ...

(1563-1628), a daughter of Count

Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe (6 December 1527 in Detmold – 15 April 1563 in Detmold) was from 1547 until his death in 1563 ruling the County of Lippe. Life Bernard's father, the reigning Count Simon V of Lippe, died in 1536, when Bernard was ...

of Lippe. Louis and Bernardine had nine children: # George Philip (1579–1589). # Amalie (1581–1582). # Ursula Maria (1583–1638), married in 1606 to Maximilian Marschall of Pappenheim. # Simon (1584–1585). # Amalie (1586–1604). # John Casimir (1587–1635), Count of Leiningen-Leiningen, married in 1617 to Martha of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (1575–1638). # Anastasia (1583–1638), married in 1624 to Count Konrad Wilhelm of Tübingen. # Philip II (1591–1668), Count of Leiningen-Rixingen, married in 1618 to Agathe Catherine Schenk of Limpurg (1595–1664). # Louis Emich (1591–1668), Count of Leiningen-Oberbronn, married in 1624 to Esther of Eberstein (1603-1682). Louis died in 1622 and was buried in

Oberbronn Oberbronn is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. There is a signposted, historic, circular walk through the village. From an observation tower on the nearby Wasenkoepfel (526m) there are views of the Upp ...

. His two eldest surviving sons divided his territory. Philip II, the youngest son, received the Imperial County of Rixingen, where he founded the Leiningen-Rixingen line. His elder brother John Casimir received the lands Louis had inherited from his father, and continued the Leiningen-Leiningen line.

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1557 births 1622 deaths 16th-century German people