Ernst Casimir I. (Ysenburg and Büdingen)

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Ernst Casimir I. zu Ysenburg and Büdingen

Prince Ernst Casimir I of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen , as Count III. (* January 20, 1781 in Büdingen ; † December 1, 1852 ibid) was a Grand Ducal Hessian brigadier general and the first prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen ( registrar ).

Life

As the son of Count Ernst Casimir II of Ysenburg and Büdingen and Countess Eleonore von Bentheim-Steinfurt , Ernst Casimir was trained first by private tutors and later at the academy in Karlsruhe.

Since he was not yet of legal age when his father died in 1801 , he could not take over the affairs of government , his mother was the guardian. Ernst Casimir initially entered the military service in Baden .

On May 10, 1804 he married Countess Ferdinande zu Erbach-Schönberg , shortly afterwards he took over the government of his inheritance, but it did not last long. During this time of the general upheaval of the political situation in Europe, his rule was mediated in 1806 and came to the Principality of Isenburg , whose head, Carl, Prince of Isenburg , was a founding member of the Rhine Confederation (and later, until 1813, French major general). As brigadier general on the side of the allied anti-Napoleonic troops, Ernst Casimir took part in the wars of liberation against Napoleonic France . He took part in battles near Lyon , Strasbourg and Selz .

As a result of the resolutions made at the Congress of Vienna , the entire Rheinbund Principality of Isenburg initially fell to the Austrian Empire in 1815 . In 1816 Austria surrendered the territories of the principality to the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Hesse-Darmstadt), which agreed on a division with the Elector (Hesse-Kassel) . The areas of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Büdingen that were formerly part of the old German Empire remained with the Grand Duchy of Hesse

In 1826 Ernst Casimir was appointed the first President of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In this function he mainly took care of the affairs of his inherited possessions. It is thanks to him that the Latin school founded by Count Wolfgang Ernst in Büdingen became a state grammar school (today Wolfgang Ernst grammar school ). He was a Freemason , among other things he is listed as an honorary member in the lists of members of the Frankfurt Lodge Carl zum Aufstieg Licht , which was under the protection of Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel .

On April 9, 1840, Ludwig II , Grand Duke of Hesse, elevated Ernst Casimir to the hereditary prince status . In 1848 Prince Ernst Casimir I resigned in favor of his son Ernst Casimir II . His younger son Gustav was a Prussian diplomat and lieutenant general.

family

He married Countess Ferdinande zu Erbach-Schönberg on May 10, 1804 in Zwingenberg (* July 23, 1784, † September 24, 1848), a daughter of Count Gustav Ernst zu Erbach-Schönberg . The couple had the following children:

  • Ernst Casimir II , Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen (1806–1861) ⚭ 1836 Countess Thekla zu Erbach-Fürstenau (born March 9, 1815 - † March 13, 1874)
  • Gustav (1813–1883) ⚭ 1840 Countess Bertha von Holleben (* November 16, 1818; † November 30, 1904)
  • Adelheid (born March 11, 1805 - † November 21, 1873)
  • Marie (October 4, 1808 - October 11, 1872) ⚭ 1829 Prince Ludwig zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1805–1880)
  • Mathilde (September 17, 1811 - May 18, 1886)
  • Ida (March 10, 1817 - July 31, 1900) ⚭ 1836 Reinhard zu Solms-Laubach (1801–1870), Prussian major general
  • Daughter († 1821)
  • Daughter († 1822)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Casimir I. von Ysenburg and Büdingen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg , Volume 1, Edition 1, Gärtner, Stuttgart, 1839 p. 34.
  2. ↑ Johann Ludwig Klüber (ed.): Imperial Austrian patent due to the transfer of sovereignty over various princely and countless Isenburg courts to Kurhessen; also the sovereignty over the other parts of the territory that were united under the name Fürstenthum Isenburg, over the Count's Schönborn rule Heusenstamm , the baronial-grandiose rule Eppertshausen , the Count-Ingelheim town Obererlenbach and the count-Solmese half of the town Niederursel, Hesse, to the Grand Duke of Offenbach , July 9, 1816, No. XXXVII., In: Johann Ludwig Klüber State Archives of the German Confederation , Volume 1, JJ Palm and Ernst Enke, Erlangen 1816, pp. 419–421.
  3. ^ Convention Territorial entre le Grand Duc de Hesse et Electeur de Hesse . - Signèe à Francfort sur Mein, le 29 Juin, 1816. British and Foreign State Papers 1815-1816, Volume 3, Compiled by the Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office, James Ridgway and Sons, Piccadilly, London, 1838, p 812-819.
personal data
SURNAME Ernst Casimir I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ysenburg and Büdingen, Ernst Casimir I. zu; Ysenburg and Büdingen, Ernst Casimir III. Count to; Ysenburg and Büdingen, Ernst Casimir I. Prince to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Brigadier General in the Imperial Army
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Büdingen
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1852
Place of death Büdingen