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Emich Carl, Prince Of Leiningen
Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (27 September 1763 – 4 July 1814) was the reigning Fürst of the Principality of Leiningen. After his death, his widow, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, married Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, fourth son of George III of the United Kingdom, 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, 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 (1767-1801), youngest daughter of Heinrich XXIV, Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Of Leiningen
The title of Prince of Leiningen () was created by the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, who elevated Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince of Leiningen, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg (a younger branch of the House of Leiningen) to the rank of ''Reichsfürst'' (Prince of the Holy Roman Empire) on 3 July 1779. Together with all other titles of nobility in Germany, it was abolished with the 1919 Weimar Constitution. Principality of Leiningen at Amorbach From 1560 until 1725, Hardenburg (Bad Dürkheim), Hardenburg Castle was the main seat of the branch. After its partial destruction during the Nine Years' War, the residence was moved to Bad Dürkheim. In 1801, this line was deprived by France of its lands on the left bank of the Rhine, namely Hardenburg, Dagsburg and Durkheim. However, it received the secularized Amorbach Abbey in 1803 as ample compensation for these losses. The complete titles of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karoline Ernestine Of Erbach-Schönberg
Karoline is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Karoline Amaral (born 1984), model * Karoline Bjørnson (1835–1934), Norwegian actress * Karoline Bruch-Sinn (1853–1911), Austrian writer *Karoline Dyhre Breivang (born 1980), Norwegian team handball player * Karoline Hausted, Danish pianist and songwriter *Karoline Herfurth (born 1984), German actress * Karoline Jagemann (1777–1848), major German tragic actress and singer * Karoline Käfer (1954–2023), retired sprinter from Austria * Karoline Kaulla (1739–1809), one of the greatest Court Jews of her time *Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist *Karoline Leach (born 1967), British playwright and author *Karoline Leavitt (born 1997), American political aide and government official * Karoline Linnert (born 1958), German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens * Karoline Nemetz (born 1958), Swedish former distance runner *Karoline Pichler (1769–1843), Austrian novelist * Karoline Seidler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince Of Leiningen
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Leiningen (; 14 August 1724 – 9 January 1807), was a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and the first and only sovereign ruler of the Principality of Leiningen from 1803 to 1806. Life Carl Friedrich Wilhelm was the eldest son of Friedrich Magnus, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg (1703–1756), and his wife, Countess Anna Christine Eleonore von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1698–1763). He succeeded his father on the latter's death, 28 October 1756. On 3 July 1779, he was made a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, becoming the first Prince of Leiningen. In 1801, he was deprived of his lands on the left bank of the Rhine, namely Hardenburg, Dagsburg and Durkheim, by France, but in 1803 received the secularized Amorbach Abbey as an ample compensation for these losses. Hitherto his titles were: ''Imperial Prince of Leiningen, Count palatine of Mosbach, Count of Düren, Lord of Miltenberg, Amorbach, Bischofsheim, Boxberg, Schüpf and Lauda.'' A few year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wurmbrand-Stuppach
The House of Wurmbrand-Stuppach is an old noble family of Austria. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Counts of Wurmbrand-Stuppach gained notability in wars against the Ottoman Empire, Turks in the Balkans. They were highly decorated advisors to the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire, Emperors. During the 18th century the family had Imperial immediacy, immediate status as ruling counts of a small territory of the Holy Roman Empire and as such, the family belonged to high nobility. The Wurmbrand Saga The founding of the house of Wurmbrand-Stuppach, and the origins of the name, occurred during the Crusades. The Count of Stuppach had disappeared seven years earlier fighting in the Holy Land, and the knights were getting impatient on waiting for his wife and successor to remarry. A lindworm (a mythological two-legged wyvern-like creature) had entered the county and began to terrorise the land. The knights demanded she marry a brave nobleman to fight it. The Countess asked for four week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich, Count Of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg
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 Imperial immediacy. Origins The first count of Leiningen about whom anything definite is known was a certain Emich II (d. before 1138). He (and perhaps his father Emich I) built Leiningen Castle, which is now known as "Old Leiningen Castle" (German: ''Burg Altleiningen''), around 1100 to 1110. Nearby Höningen Abbey was built around 1120 as the family's burial place. This family became extinct in the male line when Count Frederick I died about 1220. Frederick I's sister, Liutgarde, married Simon II, Count of Saarbrücken. One of Liutgarde's sons, also named Frederick, inherited the lands of the counts of Leiningen, and he took their arms and their name as Frederick II (d. 1237). He became known as a ''Minnesinger'', and one of his songs w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countess Christiane Wilhelmine Of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Leiningen (; 14 August 1724 – 9 January 1807), was a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and the first and only sovereign ruler of the Principality of Leiningen from 1803 to 1806. Life Carl Friedrich Wilhelm was the eldest son of Friedrich Magnus, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg (1703–1756), and his wife, Countess Anna Christine Eleonore von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1698–1763). He succeeded his father on the latter's death, 28 October 1756. On 3 July 1779, he was made a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, becoming the first Prince of Leiningen. In 1801, he was deprived of his lands on the left bank of the Rhine, namely Hardenburg, Dagsburg and Durkheim, by France, but in 1803 received the secularized Amorbach Abbey as an ample compensation for these losses. Hitherto his titles were: ''Imperial Prince of Leiningen, Count palatine of Mosbach, Count of Düren, Lord of Miltenberg, Amorbach, Bischofsheim, Boxberg, Schüpf and Lauda.'' A few years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of British Monarchs
There have been 13 monarchy of the United Kingdom, British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on Acts of Union 1707, 1 May 1707. England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707. On 1 January 1801, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merged, creating first the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon the secession of southern Ireland (1921–1922), southern Ireland in the 1920s. Union and succession Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen Anne became monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on Acts of Union 1707, 1 May 1707. She had ruled England, Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland since 8 March 1702. Anne then reigned as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover. George was born during the reign of his paternal grandfather, King George II, as the first son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Following his father's death in 1751, Prince George became heir apparent and Prince of Wales. He succeeded to the throne on George II's death in 1760. The following year, he married Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, with whom he had 15 children. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst I, Prince Of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Ernst Christian Carl, 4th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (7 May 1794 – 12 April 1860) was the son of Prince Carl Ludwig of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms-Baruth. Biography Marriage He married Princess Feodora of Leiningen, the only daughter of Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld on 18 February 1828 at Kensington Palace in London. She was the elder half-sister of the future British queen. He succeeded to the title of 4th Prince zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg on 4 April 1825, and attained the rank of Major-General. Issue Orders and decorations * : ** Knight of the Military Merit Order, ''3 July 1815'' ** Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, ''1830'' ** Grand Cross of the Friedrich Order, ''1839'' * : Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I of Great Britain, Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
