House of Oettingen-Spielberg

Oettingen-Spielberg is a noble family and county in modern-day eastern Baden-Württemberg and western Bavaria, Germany.

Arms of the House of Oettingen

Oettingen-Spielberg was a partition of Oettingen-Wallerstein in 1602. It was raised to a Principality in 1734, mediatised to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, and divided with the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810.

Counts of Oettingen-Spielberg (1602 - 1734)^[1]

• Count Wilhelm III of Oettingen (1570-1600)
  • Marcus Wilhelm, Count 1602-1614 (1590–1614)
  • Johann Albrecht, Count 1614–1632 (1591-1632)
    • Johann Franz, Count 1632–1665 (1631-1665)
      • Johann Sebastian, Count 1665–1675 (1655-1675)
      • Johann Wilhelm, Count 1675–1685 (1655-1685)
      • Franz Albrecht I, Count 1685–1734 (1663-1737), created Reichsfürst zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg 1734

Princes of Oettingen-Spielberg (sovereign 1734 - mediatization in 1806)^[2]

Oettingen Castle, to this day owned by the Prince of Oettingen-Spielberg

• Franz Albrecht I, 1st Prince 1734–1737 (1663-1737)
  • Johann Aloys I, 2nd Prince 1737-1780 (1707–1780)
  • Prince Anton Ernst (1712-1768)
    • Johann Aloys II, 3rd Prince 1780–1797 (1758-1797)
      • Johann Aloys III Anton, 4th Prince 1797–1855 (1788-1855)
        • Otto I Karl, 5th Prince 1855–1882 (1815-1882)
          • Franz Albrecht II, 6th Prince 1882–1916 (1847-1916)
          • Emil, 7th Prince 1916–1919 (1850-1919)
            • Otto II Joseph, 8th Prince 1919–1952 (1879-1952)
              • Aloys Philipp, 9th Prince 1952–1975 (1920-1975)
                • Albrecht Ernst, 10th Prince 1975–present (born 1951)
                  • Franz Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (born 1982)

Other Members

• Wolfgang I of Oettingen, Count of Oettingen-Oettingen (1455-1522)
• Maria Dorothea Sophia of Oettingen-Oettingen (1639-1698), second wife of Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg
• Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671-1747), wife of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• Maria Anna of Oettingen-Spielberg (1693-1729), wife of Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein

References

1. http://genealogy.euweb.cz/oett/oett3.html
2. http://www.almanachdegotha.org/id89.html

External links

• Website of the Prince of Oettingen-Spielberg
• List of Counts of Oettingen
• Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of Oettingen". Genealogy EU.
• (German) Counts of Oettingen in the ADB
• (German) genealogie-mittelalter.de