Wilhelm Ludwig of Baden-Durlach

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Wilhelm Ludwig von Baden-Durlach (born January 14, 1732 ; † December 17, 1788 ) was the brother of the first Grand Duke of Baden, Karl Friedrich . In 1753 he became governor of Arnhem . In 1766 he was appointed lieutenant general by the Dutch States General. From 1769 Wilhelm Ludwig was also active as an industrialist.

Wilhelm Ludwig von Baden-Durlach as a child, contemporary painting, Eutin Castle

Life

Wilhelm Ludwig was the son of Prince Friedrich von Baden-Durlach and Anna Charlotte Amalie von Nassau-Dietz-Oranien , daughter of Prince Wilhelm Friso of Nassau-Dietz-Oranien . After his father died in 1732 and his mother suffered from a mental illness, the grandmother, Margravine Magdalena Wilhelmine von Württemberg , took over the education of Wilhelm Ludwig and his brother Karl Friedrich .

Wilhelm Ludwig received his higher education at the Académie de Lausanne from 1743 to 1745. 1745/46 he traveled to Paris and the Netherlands, where he lived with his uncle Wilhelm Carl Heinrich Friso , who later became the heir to the United Provinces of the Netherlands .

The uncle came to the conclusion that the undisciplined Wilhelm Ludwig had an adverse influence on his older brother, the Hereditary Prince Karl Friedrich. While Karl Friedrich was traveling home to Karlsruhe to take over the government there, his uncle Wilhelm Ludwig ordered a military career in the Netherlands.

Wilhelm Ludwig entered into a morganatic marriage with Christine Wilhelmine Schortmann - with the approval of Margrave Karl Friedrich .

Friedrich Mosbrugger : Wilhelm Freiherr von Seldeneck as an officer (1827)

The children from this connection were raised to the nobility by Karl Friedrich on January 27, 1777 and were allowed to call themselves Barons von Seldeneck and use their coat of arms. The von Seldenecks were a Franconian noble family that died out in 1583. The son, Wilhelm Ludwig von Seldeneck (* January 14, 1766, † January 10, 1827) is considered the common progenitor of all Seldenecks.

Wilhelm Ludwig bought land in Mühlburg and founded a Krappfabrik there in 1769 , which was converted into a brewery in 1770 ; from 1771 brandy was also produced. This was the nucleus of the Freiherrlich von Seldeneck'schen brewery , which his great-great-grandson Wilhelm von Seldeneck continued and which existed until 1921.

Marriage and offspring

In 1765 Wilhelm Ludwig married Christine Wilhelmine Franziska Schortmann at the Badischer Hofe, with whom he had two children.

  • Luise, Freiin von Seldeneck (born October 31, 1763 - † February 15, 1824) ∞ Frederic Camill, Marquis de Montperny
  • Wilhelm Ludwig, Baron von Seldeneck (born January 15, 1766; † January 12, 1813) ∞ Augusta, Freiin von Bothmer

ancestors

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Friedrich VII. Magnus Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1647–1709)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Charles III Wilhelm Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1679–1738)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Augusta Maria of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (1649–1728)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Friedrich Hereditary Prince of Baden (1703–1732)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wilhelm Ludwig Duke of Württemberg (1647–1677)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg (1677–1742)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Magdalena Sibylla of Hessen-Darmstadt (1652–1712)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wilhelm Ludwig of Baden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Heinrich Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz , (1657–1696)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Johann Wilhelm Friso of Nassau-Dietz (1687–1711)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau (1666–1726)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna of Nassau-Dietz-Oranien (1710–1777)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Karl Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel (1654–1730)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Marie Luise of Hessen-Kassel (1688–1765)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Amalia of Courland (1653-1711)
 
 
 
 
 
 

literature

  • Annette Borchardt-Wenzel: Karl Friedrich von Baden - man and legend . Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2006, ISBN 3-938047-14-3 .
  • Johann Christian Sachs : Introduction to the history of the Marggravschaft and the Marggravial old princely house of Baden. Karlsruhe 1764-1770, Volume 5, pp. 173-175.
  • Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Family tables of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden: a newly edited book of nobility , Baden-Baden, 1886.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1867, p. 878ff

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Christian Sachs: Introduction to the history of the Marggravschaft and the Marggravial old princely house of Baden , Karlsruhe 1764–1770, pp. 174–175.
  2. ↑ Annette Borchardt-Wenzel: Karl Friedrich von Baden - Mensch und Legende , pp. 53–55.
  3. ↑ Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner, Stamm-Tafeln des Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden: a newly edited book of nobility , p. 434.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm Ludwig of Baden-Durlach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, governor of the Dutch province of Gelderland (since 1753)
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1732
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1788