Wenzel Joseph zu Leiningen-Heidesheim

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Wenzel Joseph Graf zu Leiningen-Heidesheim (since 1803 Leiningen-Neudenau) (born September 27, 1738 in Ehrenbreitstein ; † January 15, 1825 ) was a Count of the Holy Roman Empire from 1787 to 1806 with a seat and vote in the Wetterau Counts Association of the secular bank at the Reichsfürstenrat . From 1806 to 1825 he was a Baden registrar and from 1819 a member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly .

prehistory

Wenzel Joseph belonged to the Hardenburger (also Dagsburger) line of the house of Leiningen . He was the younger brother of Count Wilhelm Carl zu Leiningen-Guntersblum .

His great-grandfather, who came from this branch of the family, Count Johann Ludwig von Leiningen-Falkenburg (1643–1687) lived or ruled in Guntersblum near Worms . From a first, unofficial connection with Amalie Sybille von Daun (daughter of Wilhelm Wirich von Daun-Falkenstein ), he had an illegitimate son (* 1673) with the same name as himself, who was excluded from regular succession.

Count Johann Ludwig von Leiningen-Falkenburg left his partner Amalie Sybille von Daun - with whom he said he had lived in a " marriage of conscience" - and in 1678 married Countess Sophia Sibylla von Leiningen-Westerburg-Oberbronn. The descendants resulting from this now official connection were entitled to inheritance in the Leiningen-Falkenburg line, but expired in the male line in 1774 after they had previously split into the two sub-lines Leiningen-Falkenburg-Guntersblum and Leiningen-Falkenburg-Heidesheim. From the latter branch (Falkenburg-Heidesheim) came Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729-1818), the grandmother of King Ludwig I of Bavaria . When the male line of the Leiningen-Falkenburg line was extinguished, the relatives of the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg line (prince in 1779) took over all of Leiningen-Falkenburg's possessions.

The illegitimate son of Count Johann Ludwig von Leiningen-Falkenburg, who had the same name as his father, had married Ernestina, Countess von Velen and Meggen. Their son Johann Franz (1698–1745) married Countess Charlotte von Walderode-Eckhausen (widowed Countess von Formentini). They are the parents of Wenzel Joseph zu Leiningen-Heidesheim. He and his brother Wilhelm Carl sued their relatives, the princes of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg, at the Reichshofrat to surrender the property of their great-grandfather that had been confiscated in 1774, and / or they claimed their rights to succession in their lineage-falkenburg family line, of which they had previously been illegitimate Birth of their grandfather were excluded.

The decisions of the Reichshofrat dated February 15, 1782, February 4, 1783 and August 19, 1784 recognized their claims as justified. This finally led to a settlement between them and Prince Carl Friedrich Wilhelm zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg on January 17, 1787, by which they declared the sovereigns of the two Liningen-Falkenburg offices of Guntersblum and Heidesheim , with the castles of the extinct line that existed there were. The remainder of the confiscated Leiningen-Falkenburg possessions remained with the princes of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg.

As a continuation of the Leiningen-Falkenburg family tribe, which had previously been considered extinct, the two independent count houses Leiningen-Guntersblum under Wilhelm Carl and Leiningen-Heidesheim under his brother Wenzel Joseph were created.

Life

As a result of the circumstances described above, Wenzel Joseph zu Leiningen-Heidesheim received the former leiningen-Falkenburg office of Heidesheim back from the property of his ancestors in 1787 and established his own Count's State of Leiningen-Heidesheim here. In the years before that, he was Privy Councilor of Kurtrier , Vice-Obermarschall and Oberamtmann in Montabaur as well as Major of the Swabian Reichskreis and for the Hochstift Augsburg carer in Buchloe . After taking office in 1787, he resided at Heidesheim Castle . Finally he had to flee from the invading French. In the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the count received compensation on the left bank of the Rhine, which fell to the French Republic in 1801, by transferring the secularized Kurmainzer Kellerei Neudenau and granting a pension of 3,000 guilders. The family line was therefore no longer called Leiningen-Heidesheim from 1803, but Leiningen-Neudenau. In 1806 the County of Leiningen-Neudenau was mediatized as a result of the establishment of the Rhine Confederation and incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Baden as a rulership . Count Wenzel Joseph lost his government rights as well as his seat and vote in the Imperial Council.

family

Count Wenzel Joseph was married twice. On June 11, 1772 he married Freiin Margareta Franziska von Sickingen (* 1744, † 1795), daughter of Baron Carl Ferdinand von Sickingen, Lord of Ebernburg. The first marriage resulted in two sons and five daughters:

  • Klemens Wenzel (* 1774; † 1774)
  • Kunigunde Antonie Walburgis (* 1775; † 1854) married Karl Graf von Eckardt († 1828) in 1810 and Thomas von Stetten († 1849) in 1832
  • Sophie Walburgis Antonia (* 1779; † 1842) married Leopold Joseph Freiherr von Neuenstein († 1846) in 1802
  • Amalia Sibylla Walburgis Antonia (* 1780; † 1782)
  • Clemens Wilhelm Wenzel (* 1781; † 1826)
  • Marianne Albertine Margareta (* 1785; † 1842)

Count Wenzel Joseph remarried on October 24, 1803. His second wife was named Maria Viktoria Crescentia Josepha Freiin von Grünberg († 1838), daughter of Baron Carl Joseph von Grünberg. From the second marriage there was a son:

  • August Clemens (* 1805; † 1862) married Marie Henriette Wilhelmine von Geusau (* 1820; † 1891) in 1842

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Leiningen house. 900 years of total history with ancestral sequences. German princely houses. Issue 32.Börde Verlag, Werl 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811993-9-0 , p. 20 f.

Web links

Supporting documents and comments

  1. ^ House Leiningen in Online Gotha by Paul Theroff
  2. ^ Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. Section 2, part 43, 1889, article “Leiningen”; Extract from the source
  3. ^ Johann Ludwig Klüber : Treatises and observations for history, political and legal sciences. Volume 2, Frankfurt am Main 1834; (Digital scan)
  4. ↑ Karl Friedrich Dieck : The conscience marriage, legitimation through subsequent marriage and mismarriage, according to its effects on the ability of children to follow suit in fiefdoms and fideicommissen. Hall 1838; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Description of Heidesheim Castle by Carl Friedrich Barth, who had set up a teaching facility there before it was returned
  6. ^ Description of Heidesheim Castle, 1770
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen-Heidesheim, Wenzel Joseph zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiningen-Heidesheim, Wenzel Joseph Graf zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reichsgraf, nobleman of Baden
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehrenbreitstein
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1825