Adolph II of Isenburg-Wächtersbach (26 July 1795 – 22 August 1859) was a German aristocrat, as
Count
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of
Isenburg-Wächtersbach
Isenburg-Wächtersbach was a County of southern Hesse, Germany. It was created in 1673 as a partition of Isenburg-Büdingen, and was mediatised to Isenburg in 1806. In 1865, the Head of this line of the family, Ferdinand Maximilian was raised t ...
.
The county itself lasted from 1673 to 1806 in the central
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity in Western, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
From the accession of Otto I in 962 ...
, until it was mediatised to
Isenburg.
Marriage
Count Adolph II married Countess Philippine zu Ysenburg-Philippseich (1798–1877) on 14 October 1823 in Philippseich. The couple had one child:
*
Ferdinand Maximilian III, Count zu Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach (24 October 1824 – 5 June 1903), 1st Prince zu Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach, married on 17 July 1849 in Wilhelmshöhe, Countess Auguste von Schaumburg, then Princess Auguste von Hanau (21 September 1829 – 18 September 1887), eldest daughter of
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse
Frederick William I (20 August 1802 – 6 January 1875) was, between 1847 and 1866, the last Prince-elector of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel).
Early life
He was born at Hanau on 20 August 1802. He was the son of Prince William, later William ...
and his morganatic wife,
Gertrude Falkenstein, Countess von Schaumburg, then Princess von Hanau. They had two sons and two daughters.
Ancestry
References
Counts of Isenburg-Wächtersbach
19th-century German people
1795 births
1859 deaths
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