Prince Emanuel Joseph Johann of Liechtenstein (2/3 February 1700 – 15 January 1771) was the father and brother to two of

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Early life

Prince Emanuel was born in

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on 2/3 February 1700. the second son of Prince Philipp Erasmus of Liechtenstein (1664–1704) and Countess Christina Theresa von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1665–1730). His elder brother was

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Career

In 1749 he became the 734th

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of the

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Personal life

On 14 January 1726, he married Countess Maria Anna Antonia von Dietrichstein-Weichselstädt (1706–1777) in Vienna. They had thirteen children. Their eldest son became monarch of Liechtenstein when Emanuel's brother died without any surviving heirs. * Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726–1781), who married Countess Maria Leopoldine of Sternberg and had issue. *

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(1730–1789), who married Princess Maria Eleonore of Oettingen-Spielberg and had issue. * Prince Philipp Joseph Franz Maria (1731–1757), who was

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; he died unmarried and without issue. * Prince Emanuel Joseph Bartholomäus Antonius (1732–1738), who died young. * Prince Johann Joseph Simplicius (1734–1781), who died unmarried and without issue * Prince Anton Joseph Johannes Achatius (1735–1737), who died young. * Prince Joseph Wenzel Ladislaus (1736–1739), who died young. * Princess Maria ''Amalia'' Susanna (1737–1787), who married, as his first wife, Johann, 2nd Prince of Khevenhüller-Metsch in Vienna in 1754; she died in

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. * Princess Maria ''Anna'' Theresia (1738–1814), who married Count Emanuel Philibert von Waldstein-Wartenberg in Mährisch-Kromau in 1754, and had issue. * Princess ''Franziska'' Xaveria Maria (1739–1821), who married Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne in

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in 1755, and had issue. * Princess Maria ''Christina'' Anna (1741–1819), who married Count Franz Ferdinand Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau in Vienna in 1761, and had issue. * Princess Maria ''Theresia'' Anna (1741–1766), who married

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Károly József Jeromos Pálffy of Erdöd, Chancellor of Hungary, in Vienna in 1763, and had issue * Prince Josef Leopold Sebastian Emanuel (1743–1771), who died unmarried and without issue in Gaya,

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. Prince Emanuel died on 15 January 1771 in Vienna. His widow died in Vienna on 7 January 1777.

Ancestry

References

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