Karl Polykarp in Leiningen-Billigheim

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Karl Polycarp Wenceslaus Johann Ludwig Maria Graf zu Leiningen-Billigheim (* 10. July 1860 in Niederwalluf ; † 22. January 1899 in Billigheim ) was a Baden nobleman .

origin

Karl Polykarp zu Leiningen-Billigheim from the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg line was the only son of Count Karl Wenzel zu Leiningen-Billigheim and Countess Marie, née Countess von Arco-Zinneberg .

Life

Karl Polykarp zu Leiningen-Billigheim entered the service of the Kingdom of Bavaria as a diplomat . He became attaché of the Bavarian legation at the k. and k. Hof in Vienna. In 1892 his father renounced the estate of Billigheim. Karl Polykarp thus became his successor as a registrar and thus also had a seat in the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly . On August 8, 1898, Karl Polykarp married Christine Blahova (* 1873; † 1934), who was born in Vienna, in Munich. Count Karl Polykarp died in January of the following year at the age of 38. His marriage remained childless and his father Karl Wenzel took over the estate of Billigheim for a short time before he too died in 1900.

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.

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Supporting documents and comments

  1. ^ House Leiningen in Online Gotha by Paul Theroff