Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen

Carl
3rd Prince of Leiningen
Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen
Prince of Leiningen
Reign	4 July 1814 – 13 November 1856
Predecessor	Emich Carl
Successor	Ernst Leopold
Spouse	Countess Maria Klebelsberg
Issue
Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen Prince Eduard of Leiningen
Full name
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich
House	House of Leiningen
Father	Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen
Mother	Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Born	12 September 1804(1804-09-12) Amorbach, Electorate of Bavaria
Died	13 November 1856(1856-11-13) (aged 52) Amorbach, Kingdom of Bavaria

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich, Prince of Leiningen (12 September 1804 – 13 November 1856) was a German nobleman and the elder half-brother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Biography

He was the only son of Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen and his second wife, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (an elder son by Emich Carl's first wife had died in 1800). Emich Carl died on 4 July 1814 and Carl succeeded him as third Prince of Leiningen. In 1818, his mother was remarried to Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III of the United Kingdom, and in 1819 Carl and his sister Feodora were taken to Britain, where his half-sister Princess Victoria of Kent was born on 24 May. Carl later pursued a career in the Bavarian army.

Leiningen briefly played an important role in German politics as the first Minister-President or Prime Minister of the government formed by the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848.

Marriage and issue

On 13 February 1829, he was married to Countess Maria Klebelsberg (27 March 1806–28 October 1880, daughter of Count Maximilian Klebelsberg and his wife Maria Anna von Turba. They had two sons:

• Ernst Leopold Victor Carl August Joseph Emich, born on 9 November 1830, who succeeded as fourth Prince, and
• Eduard Friedrich Maximilian Johann, born on 5 January 1833 and died 9 April 1914.

The Prince of Leiningen was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1837. In 1855, shortly after his niece Victoria, Princess Royal became engaged to Prince Frederick of Prussia, he suffered from a severe apoplectic attack. A second attack in November the following year proved fatal, and he died at Amorbach at the age of fifty-two, with his sister the Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg at his bedside.

Ancestry

References

• Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen at Genealogics
• Sarah Tytler, The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, vol. II
• Fürstenhaus zu Leiningen

Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen House of Leiningen Born: 12 September 1804 Died: 13 November 1856
German nobility
Preceded by Emich Carl	Prince of Leiningen 1814 – 1856	Succeeded by Ernst Leopold

Persondata
Name	Carl Of Leiningen, Prince
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	12 September 1804
Place of birth	Amorbach, Electorate of Bavaria
Date of death	13 November 1856
Place of death	Amorbach, Kingdom of Bavaria