Paul of Württemberg

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Prince Paul of Württemberg

Paul Karl Heinrich Friedrich August Prince of Württemberg (born January 19, 1785 in Saint Petersburg , † April 16, 1852 in Paris ) was a Württemberg prince and grandfather of King Wilhelm II of Württemberg .

biography

Paul was a son of King Friedrich I of Württemberg and Princess Auguste Karoline of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . From 1806 to 1808, Prince Paul fought Napoleon as an officer in the service of the King of Prussia . This happened against his father's will. In 1808 Prince Paul came to Württemberg and was reconciled with his father, but in 1812 refused to take part in Napoleon's Russian campaign. At the beginning of the liberation war , he joined in 1813 in the service of Czar Alexander I. In 1814 he took over as Russian Lt. Gen. his farewell .

From 1817 until his death in 1852, Prince Paul lived in Paris. Relations between Prince Paul and his father had been very tense since 1813 and, after his death in 1816, with his brother, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg . From 1817 to 1819 Paul interfered in the constitutional struggles and took a position against the Württemberg house law and the regulations on appanage . However, a related appeal to the Bundestag in Frankfurt failed. As Prince of the Royal House, Paul was a member of the First Chamber of the Württemberg State Parliament , in whose sessions he also took part from 1822 to 1847. Between 1841 and 1843 he brought several complaints against the king with the estates. A few months before his death, he converted to the Catholic faith. His grave is in the Catholic section of the crypt in the Ludwigsburg Castle Church .

progeny

In 1805, Prince Paul married the Ernestine Princess Charlotte of Saxony-Hildburghausen , a daughter of Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen, in Ludwigsburg . In 1818, Prince Paul separated from his wife. A legal divorce was rejected by the Württemberg king.

The marriage had five children:

With the actress Friederike Margarethe Porth , who at that time was the widow of the actor Johann Heinrich Vohs , Prince Paul fathered an illegitimate daughter Adelheid Pauline Karoline (1805–1872), who was later mostly called Karoline. In 1836 she married the Bavarian baron Karl Maximilian von Pfeffel (1811–1890) under the name Karoline von Rottenburg. Both are the great, great, great grandparents of Boris Johnson .

After the death of his wife Charlotte in 1847, Prince Paul married the Catholic Donna Magdalena (Madeleine) de Creux y Ximenes, widow of Sir Samuel Ford ("Samford") Whittingham (1772–1841) in 1848. Donna Magdalena was his long-time lover and mother of Pauline Madeleine Ximenes (1825-1905), who was made Countess von Helfenstein in 1841 . Countess Pauline married Count Gustave de Monttessuy in Paris in 1843.

honors and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1859 . Ninth year, p. 579.
  2. ↑ Lea Thies: London's mayor discovers famous relatives . In: "Augsburger Allgemeine", August 27, 2008.
  3. ^ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual 1843 , p. 3.
  4. ↑ Hermann Hengst: The Knights of the Black Eagle Order. Verlag Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1901, p. 371.

literature

  • Gerald Maier: Paul Friedrich Karl August ; in: Sönke Lorenz , Dieter Mertens , Volker Press (Ed.): The House of Württemberg. A biographical lexicon . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-013605-4 , pp. 313-315.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 1047 .
  • en.Wikipedia: "Samuel Ford Whittingham"

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personal data
SURNAME Württemberg, Paul von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Württemberg, Paul Karl Friedrich August, Duke of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Officer in the Prussian and Russian service
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1852
Place of death Paris