Name Carl Wilhelm, | ||
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Born 14 August 1724
Durkheim ( 1724-08-14 ) Died 9 January 1807(1807-01-09) (aged 82)
Amorbach Spouse Christiane Wilhelmine Luise of Solms-Rodelheim and Assenheim House Cadet branch of House of Leiningen Father Friedrich Magnus, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg Mother Countess Anna Christine Eleonore von Wurmbrand-Stuppach | ||
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Leiningen (German: Fürst zu Leiningen) (14 August 1724 – 9 January 1807) was a German nobleman. (See Fürst for the difference between it and the other princely title, Prinz.)
He was the eldest son of Friedrich Magnus, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg and his wife Countess Anna Christine Eleonore von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, and 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.
On 24 June 1749, he married his first cousin Christiane Wilhelmine Luise, daughter of Wilhelm Carl Ludwig, Count of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim, by his wife Countess Maria Margareta Leopolda von Wurmbrand-Stuppach. She died on 6 January 1803, having borne him a son and three daughters:
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 later, the short-lived Principality of Leiningen at Amorbach was mediatized.
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