Prosper Ludwig (Arenberg)

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Prosper Ludwig, painting by an unknown Belgian painter, original in Meppen town hall

Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg (born April 28, 1785 in Enghien , † February 27, 1861 in Brussels ), Duke of Arenberg , Aarschot (Aerschot) and Meppen , Prince of Recklinghausen , Count von der Mark etc. was Prince of the Holy Roman Empire , Holder of the Grand Cross of the Belgian Order of Leopold , the Dutch Order of Lions , the Prussian Order of the Black Eagle , the Bavarian Order of St. Hubert and the Order of St. Michael , officer of the French Legion of Honor and colonel of a French cavalry regiment.

Life

After his father Ludwig Engelbert von Arenberg (1750-1820) had handed over the government of the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen to him in September 1803 , he became the 7th Duke of Arenberg. The territory at this time included the county of Recklinghausen and the Meppen office . In addition to Brussels , Clemworth Castle was temporarily his German residence. On July 12, 1806 he became a sovereign member of the Rhine Confederation . Through the Rheinbund act he got the rule of Dülmen .

In 1806 he set up a regiment of light cavalry ( Chevau-Légers d'Arenberg ) in addition to his Rheinbund contingent in Liège , of which he was the commander and owner. The association was taken over in 1808 in the French line troops as the 27th regiment of hunters on horseback , but unofficially retained its old name.

By a decree of Napoleon, the duchy lost its sovereignty on December 13, 1810. Meppen was incorporated into the French Empire and the county of Recklinghausen became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg .

During the Spanish War , Prosper Ludwig led his cavalry regiment himself into the field, was seriously wounded on October 28, 1811 in Arroyo-Molinos and was taken prisoner by the British, where he remained until May 1814. On June 15, 1815, on the eve of the Battle of Quatre-Bras and three days before the Battle of Waterloo , he was a guest at the Duchess of Richmond's ball .

In 1815 he lost the Meppen area to Hanover and Recklinghausen and Dülmen to Prussia through a treaty dated May 29 between the Kingdom of Hanover and Prussia , but Prosper Ludwig remained the registrar of his possessions. As such, he was a member of the first chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover and received a hereditary seat in the Prussian mansion in 1854 and in the provincial parliament of Westphalia in 1826 until his death . In 1847 he was also a participant in the first United State Parliament .

In 1831 he was a candidate for the Vatican for election as King of the Belgians. The Duke of Arenberg also made great contributions to the completion of Cologne Cathedral . Mindful of his family's ties to the city of Cologne, which went back to the Middle Ages, he was a member of the Zentral-Dombau-Verein zu Cologne , which was founded in 1842 and to which he transferred 1,000 thalers a year until his death in 1861. In 1848 he donated at the request of the Recklinghausen citizenship, presented by Dr. Franz Schneider and Adolf Wicking , the capital for the construction of a hospital for the poor, the later Prosper hospital in Recklinghausen.

Prosper Ludwig as a child (right) with his siblings Pauline (center) and Peter (left) on a miniature from 1791

family

On February 1, 1808, Prosper Ludwig married Stéphanie de Tascher de La Pagerie , a cousin of the French Empress Joséphine , whom Napoleon also elevated to the status of French princess. This marriage was divorced again in 1816 and Prosper-Ludwig married Marie Ludmilla Rosa von Lobkowitz on January 26, 1819, a daughter of Prince Anton Isidor von Lobkowitz , with whom he had nine (seven surviving) children:

  • Luise Pauline Sidonie (* 1820)
  • one son (* and † 1822)
  • Marie Flora Pauline (* 1823)
  • Engelbert August Anton (1824–1875)
  • Anton Franz (1826-1910); his son Philipp von Arenberg (1848–1906) Cathedral Chapter in Eichstätt
  • one daughter (* / † 1827)
  • Karl Peter d'Alcantara Joseph (1829–1831)
  • Karl Maria Joseph (1831–1896) ∞ Julia Hunyady von Kéthely (1831–1919, former wife of Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia )
  • Joseph Leonhard Balthasar (August 8, 1833 - October 3, 1896) ∞ Franziska von Liechtenstein ( Vienna , October 30, 1833 - June 6, 1894; see Arenbergpark )

See also

literature

  • Josef Häming: The members of the Westphalia Parliament: 1826 - 1978, 1978, Westphalian sources and archive directories; Vol. 2 (main volume), p. 162.
  • Jean Prince von Arenberg: Duke Prosper Louis von Arenberg (1785–1861). In: Franz-Joseph Heyen / Hans-Joachim Behr (eds.), Die Arenberger. History of a European Dynasty. Vol. 2: The Arenbergers in Westphalia and Emsland, Koblenz 1990, pp. 25-76.

Web links

predecessor Office successor
Ludwig Engelbert Duke of Arenberg
1803–1861 		Engelbert August

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Prosper Hospital Foundation in Recklinghausen , accessed on April 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ C4. Pr Charles
personal data
SURNAME Prosper Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arenberg, Prosper Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Arenberg
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Enghien
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1861
Place of death Brussels