Ludwig Adolf Friedrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
Prince Ludwig Adolf Friedrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (born June 8, 1799 in Kowno ; † June 20, 1866 in Cannes ) was 2nd Prince of Sayn and Wittgenstein, from September 23, 1861, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (in Ludwigsburg) as well as the Imperial Russian Field Marshal .
Life
He was the eldest son of the Russian Field Marshal General Peter Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and his wife, Countess Antonia Snarska.
In 1821 he represented Russia at the coronation of George IV of Great Britain . However, his career ended abruptly in 1826 when it was revealed that he sympathized with the Decembrists . The influential position and the great services of his father spared him from punishment.
In 1828 he married Princess Stefanie Radziwiłł , the sole heiress of her father Dominik Radziwiłł, who fell as an officer of the Polish Legion on Napoleon's side in the Battle of Hanau in 1813 . Tsar Alexander I found it inadmissible for one of his subjects to fight on the opposing side and thereupon confiscated the entire property of Dominik Radziwiłł, the head of this well-known Polish princely house. The cousin Anton Radziwiłł tried to save the property for the family, where it was helpful that he was married to the niece of the King of Prussia, Princess Luise Friederike . Tsar Alexander let himself be relieved to return Stephanie's uncommitted fortune to her father if she marries a Russian; Anton received the bound. In her marriage to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stephanie brought the largest private property in Europe into the marriage, an area of around 12,000 km² with numerous towns and cities in the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania . This also included the Mir Castle , which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site . Since the son from his marriage to Stefanie died childless, the daughter Marie became the heir to this property; they had to sell the property towards the end of the 19th century, as new Russian laws did not allow foreign land ownership in Russia.
After Stefanie's death in 1832, he married Princess Leonilla Barjatinskaja, who was only 18 years old and who died in 1918 after 50 years of widowhood at the age of 102.
family
He married Princess Stefanie Radziwiłł on June 4, 1828 (* December 9, 1809, † July 26, 1832). The couple had the following children:
- Marie Antoinette Caroline Stephanie (* February 16, 1829 - December 21, 1897) ⚭ February 16, 1847 Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , Prince of Ratibor and Corvey (* March 31, 1819 - July 6, 1901), heiress and others from Schloss Mir
- Peter Dominikus Ludwig, (* May 10, 1831; † August 20, 1887) 3rd Prince of Sayn and Wittgenstein, ⚭ Rosalie Léon (* October 21, 1832; † August 28, 1886)
After the death of his first wife, he married Princess Leonilla Ivanovna Barjatinskaja (* May 9, 1816 - February 1, 1918) on October 23, 1834, and the couple had the following children:
- Theodor Friedrich (born April 3, 1836; † May 19, 1909), 1876–1879 3rd Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
- ⚭ June 16, 1868 in Sopron (Ödenburg) (divorced October 18, 1871) Pauline Lilienthal († 1903) descendants noble under "von Falkenberg"
- ⚭ July 19, 1877 Biebrich Wilhelmine Hagen (* February 22, 1854; † August 2, 1917)
- Antoinette, (March 12, 1839 - May 17, 1918) ⚭ September 1, 1857 Prince Don Mario Chigi della Rovere Albani (November 1, 1832 - April 4, 1914) (parents of Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere )
- Ludwig (July 15, 1843; † February 28, 1876) 2nd Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn ⚭ December 6, 1867 Amalie Lilienthal (* October 26, 1847; † November 28, 1921)
- Alexander (July 4, 1847 - August 12, 1940), 1879–1883 4th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
- ⚭ June 14, 1870 Paris Marie Auguste Yvonne de Blacas d'Aulps (* January 2, 1851 - October 21, 1881);
- ⚭ (morganatic) March 31, 1883 in London Helene Królikowska (* July 17, 1854; † November 29, 1931) descendants noble under "von Hachenburg"
literature
- Ludwig Tavernier: The Princely House Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn . Börde-Verlag, Werl 2009, 4th edition, Deutsche Fürstenhäuser Heft 6, ISBN 3-980-7740-3-1 .
- Genealogisches Staats-Handbuch, 1835, p. 669.
Web links
- History of the Sayner Princely House
- Family tree of the Sayner Princely House
- Family tree at genealogy.euweb.cz
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfons Clary-Aldringen : Stories of an old Austrian. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1977, ISBN 3-550-07474-3 , page 28.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, Ludwig Adolf Friedrich zu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, Ludwig Adolf Friedrich Prince to |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kovno |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1866 |
| Place of death | Cannes |