Ludwig III. from Löwenstein

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Count Ludwig III. from Löwenstein

Ludwig III. von Löwenstein (born February 17, 1530 in Vaihingen ; † March 13, 1611 in Wertheim ) was Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim .

Life

Ludwig III. was a son of Count Friedrich I von Löwenstein (1502–1541) (a son of Count Ludwig I ) and his wife Helene von Königsegg (1509–1566).

At the age of 18 he came to the imperial court in Vienna, where he was given command of an equestrian regiment with 1,000 horses. A short time later he went to Burgundy and worked there for Elector Friedrich II of the Palatinate as the electoral Palatinate ambassador to various courts. In 1557 he was sent to the Reichstag in Regensburg and entered the service of King Ferdinand as an imperial councilor, despite his Protestant denomination. In 1559 he was promoted to President of the Imperial Court Council. As deputy of Emperor Maximilian II , he was also present at several diets. Archduke Karl of Styria appointed him governor of Carinthia , Carniola and Styria .

Ludwig owned the County of Löwenstein (under Württemberg suzerainty) . On September 3, 1566 he married Countess Anna zu Stolberg (1548–1599), daughter of Count Ludwig zu Stolberg . Ludwig originally wanted to marry her older sister Katharina, the widow of the last Count of Wertheim. Ludwig's father-in-law had inherited the Grafschaft Wertheim in 1566 , which fell to his daughter Anna with his death in 1574, as did the Rochefort rule .

Ludwig III. signed the concord formula of 1577 and the concord book of 1580. In 1580 he assumed the title of Count von Löwenstein-Wertheim and was the first to include the term Wertheim in the title.

After Ludwig zu Stolberg's death, the government was alternately exercised by his three sons-in-law - except for Ludwig III. these were Count Philipp von Eberstein , who had married the oldest daughter Katharina, and Count Dietrich von Manderscheid , who had married the second oldest daughter Elisabeth. After both had died - Philipp von Eberstein in Remlingen in 1589 and Dietrich von Manderscheid in Schleiden in 1593 - Ludwig's plans for a sole government were thwarted by the fact that his sister-in-law Elisabeth remarried. Her husband became the Catholic Wilhelm von Krichingen , who had a dispute with Ludwig III until his death in 1610. and was also involved in the Würzburg feud .

family

Ludwig and Anna had eleven children. Her son Christoph Ludwig (1568–1618), Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg, is the founder of the Protestant house of the later princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , another son, Johann Dietrich (1585–1644), Count of Löwenstein- Wertheim-Rochefort, is the founder of the house of the later Catholic princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.

Children of Ludwig III. and Anna von Stolberg-Rochefort:

  • Christoph Ludwig (born May 3, 1568 - † February 17, 1618)
⚭ 1592 Countess Elisabeth Amalie von Manderscheid-Schleiden (* July 27, 1569; † October 26, 1621), heiress of Virneburg
  • Ludwig IV (May 30, 1569 - August 24, 1635)
⚭ 1605 Gertrude von Schutzbar called Milchling
⚭ 1634 Countess Juliana von Wied-Runkel (* around 1580)
  • Wolfgang Ernst (* August 5, 1578; † May 26, 1636) ⚭ 1625 Countess Barbara zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (* June 22, 1592; † March 1665)
  • Johann Dietrich (January 31, 1585 - March 6, 1644) ⚭ 1610 Josina de La Marck (January 3, 1583 - February 26, 1626). He was the founder of the Catholic line Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.

heritage

In 1597 Ludwig III. the succession is laid down in the Statutum Gentilium . After his death, however, the four sons Christoph Ludwig, Ludwig IV., Wolfgang Ernst and Johann Dietrich who were entitled to inheritance came to a dispute, and the common inheritance was divided up in 1611 and 1613.

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  1. ↑ See BSLK , p. 15 and p. 765.
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig III. from Löwenstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaihingen
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1611
Place of death Wertheim