Philipp von der Leyen

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Philipp von der Leyen and zu Hohengeroldseck ( Heinrich Friedrich Füger )

Philipp Franz Wilhelm Ignaz Imperial Count and Prince von der Leyen and Hohengeroldseck (born August 1, 1766 in Koblenz , † November 23, 1829 in Cologne ) was the first Prince of Leyen . On July 12, 1806 , Count Philipp Franz von der Leyen accepted the title of prince. From 1806 to 1815 he was sovereign of the Principality of von der Leyen in the Confederation of the Rhine .

Life

Bust of Karol Badyna
Grave of Philipp von der Leyen, who died in 1829, on the north side of the local Catholic church of St. Johannes Apostel in Gondorf

Philipp Franz was the son of Count Franz Karl von der Leyen (* 1736, † 1775) and his wife Marianne, née von Dalberg, and thus a nephew of the future prince of the Rhine Confederation, Karl Theodor von Dalberg .

When the father Franz Karl died in 1775, the thirty-year-old mother Marianne took over the guardianship of Philipp and ruled the imperial county from Blieskastel until 1791 . In 1781 Count Philipp became a member of the Erfurt Scientific Academy. He married Countess Sophia Theresia von Schönborn-Buchheim on May 15, 1788 in Pommersfelden (born August 15, 1772 in Mainz , † in an apartment fire on July 4, 1810 in Paris ), daughter of Count Erwein von Schönborn-Buchheim and Countess Maria Anna from Stadion-Warthausen and Thannhausen . In 1794 the family fled from the French revolutionary troops to the right bank of the Rhine and lived near Frankfurt am Main .

In 1795 and 1798 Count Philipp describes "[...] an almost indescribable damage [...] which indicated to me through the hostile occupation of my imperial properties." He quantified his monetary losses from the years 1792 to 1796 to the imperial administration in Regensburg with 1,823,405 florin . In the list of damages, among other things, the lost lease income from eight dominions on the left bank of the Rhine and nine cellars on the left bank of the Rhine are listed.

After the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801, the Count von der Leyen's property on the left bank of the Rhine was sequestered by the French government . The Regensburg Reichstag decided not to compensate the Count because he had not contributed to the war costs of the Imperial War of the First Coalition . His mother's brother, Chancellor Karl Theodor von Dalberg , who had been in personal negotiations with Napoleon since 1803, made several requests for his nephew to the French Emperor. On May 10, 1804, he ordered - “out of respect and special affection for the dear uncle” - that the sequester be lifted and, in his own words, returned him “goods worth five million francs on the left bank of the Rhine”.

Reichsgraf von der Leyen and another nephew of Dalberg in Paris directed further requests for compensation to the emperor. In 1806, to compensate for their previous losses, they wanted the financial income from the now Prussian Eichsfeld , which had been occupied by Napoleon after the victory over Prussia. Instead, von der Leyen was raised to the rank of sovereign prince in the Confederation of the Rhine, allied with Napoleon.

In 1807 von der Leyen tried again in Paris to get at least Erfurt and parts of the old county of Hanau instead of the Eichsfeld . Napoleon is said to have complained about "the insatiability" of the prince at Dalberg, but he allocated 200,000 francs on the occasion of the Erfurt Princes' Congress in 1808 .

After Napoleon's end, the Congress of Vienna took care of von der Leyen's sovereignty and placed Hohengeroldseck under Habsburg sovereignty and, in 1819, under the Grand Ducal of Baden.

In 1825, Prince von der Leyen received the title "Highness" for the first-born (primogeniture) by a resolution of the Bundestag

Philipp was buried in the small churchyard above Gondorf Castle in Kobern-Gondorf . His bronze bust, created by the Polish sculptor Karol Badyna , has been standing there in front of the outer bailey of the Leyen headquarters since 2002.

progeny

  • Princess Amalie (* 1789; † 1870)
⚭ 1810 Comte Louis de Tascher de La Pagerie (cousin of Empress Joséphine )
A previously planned marriage with a nephew of Napoleon's Foreign Minister Talleyrand did not materialize.
⚭ 1818 Countess Sophie von Schönborn-Buchheim (* 1798; † 1876)

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility. Walter v. Hueck: Princely Houses Volume X. Limburg ad Lahn 1978
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Fürstlichen Häuser, 178th year, Gotha 1941
  • Konrad M. Färber: Emperor and Arch Chancellor. Carl von Dalberg and Napoleon, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 3-927529-51-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Count Philipp von der Leyen and Hohengeroldseck to the Imperial Assembly in Regensburg in 1798. Online at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  2. ↑ a b Konrad M. Färber: Emperor and Arch Chancellor. Carl von Dalberg and Napoleon, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 3-927529-51-6 , p. 78 ff.
  3. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Walter v. Hueck: Princely Houses Volume X. Limburg ad Lahn 1978, p. 271.
  4. ^ Otto von Czarnowsky: The Moselle and its immediate surroundings from Metz to Coblenz, Koblenz 1841, p. 242. Online at Google Books

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predecessor Office successor
Franz Karl Imperial Count of Hohengeroldseck
1775–1806; (1775–1793 Marianne von der Leyen as regent) 		he himself was Prince of the Principality of von der Leyen until 1815
personal data
SURNAME Leyen, Philipp von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leyen and to Hohengeroldseck, Philipp Franz Wilhelm Ignaz Prince of the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first prince von der Leyen
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1829
Place of death Cologne