Ludwig Engelbert (Arenberg)

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Ludwig Engelbert around 1815
Napoleon I receives the delegates from the French Senate in the Royal Palace of Berlin on November 19, 1806 , painting by René Théodore Berthon , Ludwig Engelbert von Arenberg in the middle of the group of three senators

Ludwig Engelbert Marie Joseph Augustin (born August 3, 1750 in Brussels ; † March 7, 1820 there ) was Duke of Arenberg , Aarschot and Meppen , and Prince of Recklinghausen .

Ludwig Engelbert was the last sovereign of the old Duchy of Arenberg in the Eifel , which had belonged to the Holy Roman Empire , since 1778 . At the age of 24 he was blind as a result of a hunting accident. Therefore, he could not pursue the military career usual in his family and turned to the arts and sciences. He was the patron of Johannes Petrus Minckeleers , a discoverer of luminous gas and the inventor of the first functioning gas lamp , who on November 21, 1783 steered the first manned gas balloon at Arenberg Castle .

On February 9, 1801, he lost his duchy through the Treaty of Lunéville , as the areas on the left bank of the Rhine had to be ceded to France . As a replacement, he was awarded the Münster office of Meppen and the Electorate of Cologne County of Recklinghausen as the new Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss on February 25, 1803 . In 1806 the County of Dülmen was added to the duchy through the Rhine Federation Act.

In September 1803 he had already handed over the duchy to his son Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg . In 1806 Ludwig Engelbert became a member of the Sénat Conservateur .

family

Ludwig Engelbert was a son of the Austrian field marshal and duke Karl Maria Raimund von Arenberg and the countess Luise Margarethe von der Mark und Schleiden . He was married to Pauline-Louise de Brancas, daughter of Louis-Léon de Brancas , Duc de Lauragais ( House of Brancas ), and Élisabeth-Pauline de Gand . They had six children:

  • Pauline Karoline Iris (1774–1810), married to Prince Joseph Johann von Schwarzenberg (1769–1833)
  • Ludwig Engelbert (* and † 1777)
  • Prosper Ludwig (1785–1861), married 1808 to 1816 to the French Princess Stephanie de Tascher de la Pagerie, a niece of Empress Josephine
  • Philemon Paul Maria (* 1788), honorary canon of Namur
  • Peter d'Alcantara Karl (1790–1877), French duke and pair since 1828, married to Alix Marie Charlotte von Talleyrand-Perigord (1808–1842) ( House Talleyrand-Périgord )
  • Philipp Joseph (1794-1815)

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predecessor Office successor
Karl Maria Raimund Duke of Arenberg
1778–1803 		Prosper Ludwig
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig Engelbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arenberg, Ludwig Engelbert Marie Joseph Augustin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Arenberg
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1820
Place of death Brussels