Emich Karl zu Leiningen-Billigheim

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Emich Karl Friedrich Wilhelm August Graf zu Leiningen-Billigheim (* 24. April 1839 in Karlsruhe , † 31 March 1925 in Rome ) was a Baden nobleman and papal captain .

origin

Count Emich Karl zu Leiningen-Billigheim from the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg line was the youngest son of Count Karl Theodor zu Leiningen-Billigheim and Countess Maria Anna, née Countess von Westerholt-Gysenberg (* 1802; † 1852). His parents were cousins ​​and both grandchildren of the Elector Karl Theodor of Palatinate-Bavaria through the respective maternal line of Bretzenheim .

Life

Emich Karl Graf zu Leiningen-Billigheim served in the army of the Papal States , where he was Dragoons - captain and squadron leader .

On May 30, 1870, he married Countess Gaëtane de Ribeaucourt (* 1843; † 1872) from Belgium. His wife died in Brussels at the beginning of 1872 at the age of 32. The marriage remained childless.

On June 14, 1879, Pope Leo XIII honored . the count by appointment as papal secret chamberlain with sword and cloak (Camerieri Segreti di Spada e Cappa). In 1900 he inherited the estate of Billigheim in the Grand Duchy of Baden from his brother Karl Wenzel and thus became his successor in the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly . The castles in Billigheim and Neuburg in Obrigheim, as well as other properties in the form of areas and buildings used for agriculture and forestry, which were in Allfeld , Obrigheim , Sulzbach and Waldmühlbach, belonged to his rulership . His full official title until the abolition of the monarchy was Graf zu Leiningen, Herr zu Billigheim, Allfeld, Mühlbach, Katzenthal and the district of Neuburg am Neckar, Graf von Dagsburg and Apremont .

Honors

  • Honorary Citizen of the City of Rome

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Leiningen house. 900 years of total history with ancestral sequences. German princely houses. Issue 32.Börde Verlag, Werl 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811993-9-0 , p. 20.

Supporting documents and comments

  1. ^ House Leiningen in Online Gotha by Paul Theroff
  2. ↑ archive for family history research (AfF), High-Verlag, 2006, Volumes 10-11, page 102; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ See ibid
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen-Billigheim, Emich Karl zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiningen-Billigheim, Emich Karl Friedrich Wilhelm August Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden registrar
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1925
Place of death Rome