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House of Lippe The House of Lippe (german: Haus Lippe) is the former reigning house of a number of small Germany, German states, two of which existed until the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Principality of Lippe and the Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality of S ...

, father =

George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (20 December 1784 – 21 November 1860) was a Count and later Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. Biography He was born in Bückeburg the son of Philipp II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, and his second wife Prince ...

, mother =

Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont , reign = 23 June 1816 – 21 November 1860 , succession = Princess consort of Schaumburg-Lippe , house = House of Waldeck-Pyrmont (by birth)House of Lippe (by marriage) , spouse = George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe , issue = Ad ...

, birth_date = , birth_place =

Bückeburg Bückeburg (Northern Low Saxon: ''Bückeborg'') is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the border with North Rhine Westphalia. It is located in the district of Schaumburg close to the northern slopes of the Weserbergland ridge. Population: 21,0 ...

Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe, also Lippe-Schaumburg, was created as a county in 1647, became a principality in 1807, a free state in 1918, and was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bück ...

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, death_date = , death_place = Ratibořice,

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Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe (german: Prinz Wilhelm Karl August zu Schaumburg-Lippe; 12 December 18344 April 1906) was son of

and member of the

Early life

William was born at

, seventh child and third son of

(1784–1860), (son of Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe and Landgravine Juliane of

Hesse-Philippsthal This is a list of rulers of Hesse (german: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany. These rulers belonged to a dynasty collectively known as the House of Hesse and the House of Brabant,''Burke's Royal Families of the World ...

) and his wife,

(1796–1869), (daughter of

George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (german: Georg Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont; 6 May 17479 September 1813) was Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 1812 to 1813. He was the son of Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and Countess Pala ...

and Princess Augusta of

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a small principality in Germany, in the present day state of Thuringia, with its capital at Sondershausen. History Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a county until 1697. In that year, it became a principality, which ...

Marriage

William married 30 May 1862 at

Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßlau ...

to Princess Bathildis of

Anhalt-Dessau Anhalt-Dessau was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and later a duchy of the German Confederation. Ruled by the House of Ascania, it was created in 1396 following the partition of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, and finally merged into th ...

(1837–1902), daughter of

Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (german: Friedrich August von Anhalt-Dessau) (23 September 1799 – 4 December 1864), was a German prince of the House of Ascania from the Anhalt-Dessau branch. Birth and family Frederick was born in Dessau on ...

, and his wife,

Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (9 May 1814 – 28 July 1895) was a member of the House of Hesse-Kassel by birth. Through her marriage to Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, she became a princess of Anhalt-Dessau. Family ...

. They had eight children: * Princess Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe (10 October 1864 – 16 July 1946), married in 1886 to

William II of Württemberg , spouse = , issue = Pauline, Princess of WiedPrince Ulrich , house = Württemberg , father = Prince Frederick of Württemberg , mother = Princess Catherine of Württemberg , birth_date = , birth_place = Stu ...

, no issue. *Prince Franz Joseph of Schaumburg-Lippe (8 October 1865 – 4 September 1881) *

Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe , house = Lippe , father = Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe , mother = Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau , birth_date = , birth_place = Ratibořice Castle, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , death_date = , death_place = Kud ...

(30 January 1868 – 12 December 1945), married in 1896 to Princess Louise of Denmark, had issue. *Prince Albrecht of Schaumburg-Lippe (24 October 1869 – 25 December 1942), married in 1897 to

Duchess Elsa of Württemberg , house =Württemberg , father = Duke Eugen of Württemberg , mother =Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna of Russia , birth_date = , birth_place = Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg , death_date = , death_place = Pfaffstätt, ...

, had issue. *Prince Maximilian of Schaumburg-Lippe (13 March 1871 – 1 April 1904), married in 1898 to

Duchess Olga of Württemberg , house =Württemberg , father = Duke Eugen of Württemberg , mother =Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna of Russia , birth_date = , birth_place = Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg , death_date = , death_place =Ludwigsburg, ...

, had issue. *

Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe , house = Lippe , father = Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe , mother = Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau , birth_date = , birth_place = Ratibořice, Kingdom of Bohemia , death_date = , death_place = Arolsen, West Ger ...

(21 May 1873 – 6 April 1962), married in 1895 to

Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (''Friedrich Adolf Hermann Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont''; 20 January 1865 – 26 May 1946) was the last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 12 May 1893 to 13 November 1918. Family He was th ...

, had issue. *

Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe , house = Lippe , father = Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe , mother = Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau , birth_date = , birth_place = Ratibořice, Kingdom of Bohemia , death_date = , death_place = Ballenstedt, Eas ...

(22 September 1875 – 27 January 1971), married in 1898 to

Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg , image = Ernstii.jpg , image_size = , caption = The Duke in 1915 , succession = Duke of Saxe-Altenburg , reign = 7 February 1908 – , coronation = , predecessor = Ernst I , successor = , spouse = ...

, had issue, divorced in 1920. *Princess Alexandra Karoline of Schaumburg-Lippe (9 June 1879 – 5 January 1949), scheduled to marry King

Alexander I of Serbia Alexander I ( sr-cyr, Александар Обреновић, Aleksandar Obrenović; 14 August 187611 June 1903) reigned as the king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbia ...

, but against the wishes of his parents, he married instead his mother's lady in waiting,

Draga Mašin Draginja "Draga" Obrenović ( sr-cyr, Драгиња "Драга" Обреновић; 11 September 1867 – ), formerly Mašin (Машин), was the Queen consort of Serbia as the wife of King Aleksandar Obrenović. She was formerly a lady-in-wai ...

. He and his daughter-in-law Princess Louise of Denmark died five hours apart at the family castle in Nachod,

Honours

* Ascanian duchies: Grand Cross of the House

Order of Albert the Bear The House Order of Albert the Bear (German: ''Hausorden Albrechts des Bären'' or ''Der Herzoglich Anhaltische Hausorden Albrechts des Bären'') was founded in 1836 as a joint House Order by three dukes of Anhalt from separate branches of the fa ...

, ''14 January 1856'' * : Knight of the

Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau The Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau (french: Ordre du Lion d'Or de la Maison de Nassau, nl, Huisorde van de Gouden Leeuw van Nassau) is a chivalric order shared by the two branches of the House of Nassau (the Ottonian and Walramian ...

, ''July 1864'' *

Mecklenburg Mecklenburg (; nds, label=Low German, Mękel(n)borg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin ...

: Grand Cross of the

House Order of the Wendish Crown The House Order of the Wendish Crown (german: Hausorden der Wendischen Krone) was an Order of the House of Mecklenburg, jointly instituted on 12 May 1864 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of ...

, with Crown in Ore, ''21 March 1868'' *

: ** Knight of the Imperial

Order of the Iron Crown The Order of the Iron Crown ( it, link=no, Ordine della Corona Ferrea) was an order of merit that was established on 5 June 1805 in the Kingdom of Italy by Napoleon Bonaparte under his title of Napoleon I, King of Italy. The order took its name ...

, 1st Class, ''1875'' ** Grand Cross of the Austrian Imperial Order of Leopold, ''1899'' *

Ernestine duchies The Ernestine duchies (), also known as the Saxon duchies (, although the Albertine appanage duchies of Weissenfels, Merseburg and Zeitz were also "Saxon duchies" and adjacent to several Ernestine ones), were a group of small states whose num ...

: Grand Cross of the

Saxe-Ernestine House Order The Saxe-Ernestine House Order (german: link=yes, Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden)Hausorden
Herz ...

, ''1882'' * :pp. 6277
/ref> ** Knight of the

House Order of Fidelity The House Order of Fidelity (german: Hausorden der Treue) is a dynastic order of the Margraviate of Baden. It was established by Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach as a reward for merit and to mark the laying of the foundation ston ...

, ''1885'' ** Knight of the

Order of Berthold the First The Order of Berthold the First was a dynastic order in the Grand Duchy of Baden. It was established on 29 April 1877 by Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession as an additional class above the gra ...

, ''1885'' * : Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, ''1886''''Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg'' (1886/7), "Königliche Orden" p
23
/ref>

Ancestry

References

Notes and sources

*L'Allemagne dynastique, Huberty, Giraud, Magdelaine, Reference: II 269 {{DEFAULTSORT:Schaumburg-Lippe, Prince William Of 1834 births 1906 deaths People from Bückeburg People from Schaumburg-Lippe

William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

Members of the House of Lords (Austria) Austrian generals