Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen

Karl
Prince of Isenburg and Büdingen

Prince Karl.
Born (1838-07-29)29 July 1838
Birstein, Hesse, Germany
Died 4 April 1899(1899-04-04) (aged 60)
Schlackenwerth bei Karlsbad
Spouse Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria-Tuscany
Issue Prince Leopold Wolfgang
Princess Maria Antonia
Princess Maria Michaele
Prince Franz Joseph
Prince Karl Joseph
Prince Victor Salvator
Prince Alfonso Maria
Princess Marie Elizabeth
Princess Adelaide
Full name
German: Karl Viktor Amadeus Wolfgang Kasimir Adolf Bodo
House House of Isenburg-Büdingen
Father Prince Victor Alexander of Isenburg-Büdingen
Mother Princess Maria of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Religion Roman Catholicism

Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen (full name: Karl Viktor Amadeus Wolfgang Kasimir Adolf Bodo) (29 July 1838 – 2 April 1899) was head of the mediatised German house of Isenburg and Büdingen.

Biography

Karl[1] was born in Birstein, Hesse, as the second child of Victor Alexander, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen, son of Karl, last sovereign Prince of Isenburg, and his wife, Princess Maria of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.[2] After the early death of his father in 1843, Karl was placed in the charge of his uncle, Wolfgang Ernst III, Prince of Isenburg-Birstein, who had him raised in his Protestant denomination, but he was exposed to the Catholic faith by his mother and in 1861, converted to Catholicism.

On May 31, 1865, at the age of twenty-seven, he married Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria-Tuscany (1845–1917), daughter Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies.[2] The couple had nine children. In 1866, after the death of his uncle, Karl succeeded him as Prince of Isenburg-Birstein.[2]

Karl died at the age of sixty in 1899, and his wife Maria Luisa died in 1917.[2] They are the ancestors of Sophie, Princess of Prussia, [2]wife of Georg Friedrich, head of the House of Prussia which reigned as German emperors until 1918.

Issue

Karl and Maria Luisa had nine children:

References

  1. van de Pas, Leo. "Karl, Fürst zu Isenburg und Büdingen in Birstein". Genealogics .org. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XIII. "Isenburg/Ysenburg". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1987, pp. 237-239. (German).

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