Ludwig (Leiningen-Leiningen)

Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg (* 1557 ; † 1622 ) was Count of Leiningen-Leiningen .

Ludwig was the eldest son of Philip I (* 1527; † 1597), Count of Leiningen-Leiningen, and his first wife Amalie von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1537; † 1577), the daughter of Count Simon V. von Zweibrücken- Bitsch († 1540). His father came from the noble family Leiningen-Westerburg , which descended from the house of Runkel , and had established the Leiningen-Leiningen branch between him and his brothers as part of the division of the County of Leiningen-Westerburg. By marrying Amalie, he had also enlarged his county of Leiningen-Leiningen to include her inheritance, the area of ​​the imperial county of Rixingen . When his father died in 1597, Ludwig inherited his county.

In 1578 he married Bernhardine zur Lippe (* 1563; † 1628), daughter of Count Bernhard VIII zu Lippe . He had nine children with her:

1. Georg Philipp (born December 10 (January?) 1579 - † August 10, 1589)
2. Amalie (* 1581; † May 12, 1582)
3. Ursula Maria (February 14, 1583 - January 19, 1638) ⚭ 1606 Count Max zu Pappenheim
4. Simon (7 January 1584 - 1585)
5. Amalie (14 November 1586 - 19 March 1604)
6. Johann Casimir (born February 1, 1587; † September 30 (20?), 1635), Count zu Leiningen-Leiningen ⚭ 1617 Martha von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (* 1575; † 1638)
7. Anastasia (born November 30, 1588) ⚭ 1624 Count Conrad Wilhelm von Tübingen
8. Philip II (January 5, 1591; † February 9, 1668), Count of Leiningen-Rixingen ⚭ 1618 Agathe Katharina Schenk of Limpurg (* 1595; † 1664)
9. Ludwig Emich (born August 24, 1595 - † June 1, 1635), Count of Westerburg-Leiningen-Oberbronn

Ludwig died in 1622 and was buried in Oberbronn . After his death, his county was divided between his two living sons. The younger, Philipp II. Received the part around the imperial county Rixingen, where he founded the new branch line Leiningen-Rixingen; the elder Johann Kasimir received the remaining home lands and continued the main line from Leiningen-Leiningen.

Web links

• Genealogy of the Leiningen-Westerburg house at genealogy.euweb.cz

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Brinckmeier, Karl Emich: Genealogical history of the primeval aristocratic, imperial count and imperial princely, noble, noble house of Leiningen and Leiningen-Westerburg, Volume II . Richard Sattler, Braunschweig 1891, p. 162–165 ( digitized version of the Russian State Library ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} database entry "Bernhardine zur Lippe" at wwperson.informatik.uni-erlangen.de. ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

predecessor	Office	successor
Philip I.	Count of Leiningen-Leiningen 1597–1622	Johann Kasimir (Leiningen-Leiningen) Philipp II. (Leiningen-Rixingen)