Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen
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| Emich Carl | |
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Dürckheim | |
| Died | 4 July 1814 (aged 50) Amorbach |
| Spouse | Countess Henriette of Reuss-Ebersdorf
(m. 1787; died 1801) |
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Leiningen | |
| Father | Karl Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Leiningen |
| Mother | Countess Christiane of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim |
Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (27 September 1763 – 4 July 1814) was the reigning
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 4 July 1787, to Countess Henriette Sophie of
Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg
. Henriette died on 3 September 1801. Emich Carl and Henrietta had one son, who died young and within the lifetime of his mother, being:
- Prince Friedrich Karl Heinrich Ludwig of Leiningen (1 March 1793 – 22 February 1800)
On 21 December 1803, two years after the death of his first wife, Emich married
Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
. His second wife was a niece of his late wife. They had two further children:
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich (12 September 1804 – 13 November 1856); succeeded his father as third prince; married on 13 February 1829, Countess Maria von Klebelsberg-Thumburg (1806-1880), and had issue.
- Princess Anna Feodora Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine of Leiningen (7 December 1807 – 23 September 1872); married in 1828, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and had issue.
Death and succession
Emich Carl died at Amorbach on 4 July 1814, and was succeeded by their only surviving son, Carl Friedrich.
Post-mortem connections
Four years after his death, his widow married
George III of the United Kingdom. They had a daughter, Princess Victoria of Kent, who would later become Queen regnant of the United Kingdom
.
Ancestry
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Sources
- Thomas Gehrlein: Das Haus Leiningen. 900 Jahre Gesamtgeschichte mit Stammfolgen. Deutsche Fürstenhäuser. Heft 32. Börde Verlag, Werl 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811993-9-0, S. 25
- Marek, Miroslav. "leiningen/leiningen6.html#EC". Genealogy.EU.[better source needed]
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