George I (Waldeck-Pyrmont)

Prince Georg I of Waldeck-Pyrmont

Prince Georg I von Waldeck and Pyrmont (born May 6, 1747 in Arolsen ; † September 9, 1813 in Pyrmont ) was Count of Pyrmont from 1805 to 1813 and, after the death of his brother Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and from 1812 to 1813 Pyrmont.

Life

Georg I was the son of Prince Karl August Friedrich von Waldeck (1704–1763) and Christiane (1725–1816), daughter of Count Palatine Christian III. to Birkenfeld . So he belonged to the Waldeck family . On September 24, 1812 he became sovereign Prince of Waldeck, Pyrmont and Rappoltstein . Like his brother Friedrich Karl August, Georg joined the Rhine Confederation in April 1807 , which saved both the County of Pyrmont and the Principality of Waldeck from merging into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia like the neighboring states .

Coin of George I.

Marriage and offspring

He married on September 12, 1784 in Otterwisch Auguste (1768–1849), daughter of Prince August II of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , and had the following children with her:

• Christiane Friederike Auguste (1787–1806), Abbess of Schaaken
• Karl (1788–1795)
• Georg II. (1789–1845), Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
• Friedrich Ludwig Hubert (1790–1828), Count of Waldeck; ⚭ 1816 Ursula Polle (1790–1861, raised to "Countess von Waldeck" in 1843)
• Christian (1792–1795)
• Auguste (1793–1794)
• Johann Ludwig (1794–1814)
• Ida Caroline Luise (1796-1869); ⚭ 1816 Prince Georg Wilhelm zu Schaumburg-Lippe
• Wolrad (1791-1821)
• Mathilde (1801-1823); ⚭ 1817 Prince Eugene of Württemberg (1788–1857)
• Karl Christian (born April 12, 1803; † July 19, 1846); ⚭ March 13, 1841 Countess Amalie zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1814–1879)
• Caroline (1804-1806)
• Hermann (1809-1876); ⚭ 1833 Countess Agnes Teleki von Szék (1814–1896)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.documentarchiv.de/nzjh/1807/rheinbund_akzessionsvertrag-waldeck.html

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Karl August	Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont 1812–1813	George II