Ludwig Engelbert (Arenberg)
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)
literature
- Heinrich Neu: Arenberg, Ludwig Engelbert, Duke of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Arenberg Foundation: The Dukes of Arenberg ; accessed: February 15, 2013
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Karl Maria Raimund |
Duke of Arenberg 1778–1803 |
Prosper Ludwig |
personal data | |
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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 |