Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince of Leiningen
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince of Leiningen ( born August 14, 1724 in Durkheim, Palatinate, † January 9, 1807 in Amorbach, Bavaria ) was imperial chamberlain, Real Electoral Palatinate privy councilor and lieutenant general.
Family
The Leininger family comes from old, well Frankish nobility, whose possessions were originally located mainly in today Palatinate and in the Northern Vosges.
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm was born the son of Count Friedrich Magnus of Leiningen- Dabo -Hardenberg Castle (1703-1756) and his wife Anna Christiane Eleonore von Wurmbrand - Stuppach (1698-1763), daughter of Reichshofrat President Count Johann Joseph Wilhelm von Wurmbrand - Stuppach ( 1670-1750 ).
His father's brother was Count Karl Ludwig von Leiningen- Dabo - Emichsburg (1704-1747); both uncle Margrave Karl III. Wilhelm of Baden- Durlach, founder of the city of Karlsruhe.
Life
Carl married on June 24, 1749 Christiane Wilhelmine Gräfin zu Solms- Roedelheim ( born April 24, 1736, in Roedelheim in Frankfurt am Main, † January 6, 1803 in Strasbourg). Their son was Emich Carl of Leiningen (1763-1814), 2nd Prince of Leiningen.
1768 Count Leiningen had received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Palatine Lion, the Emperor raised him in 1779 in the imperial princes with Kuriatstimme in Wetterauischen Count College. When the French Revolution spilled over into the 1790s on Southwest and West Germany, the family was driven out of 1796 only in 1725 elected residence Durkheim and from all linksrheinischen possessions. The castle in Durkheim was lit and burned out.
By Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the Leininger were first compensated by an independent Principality of Leiningen, preferably consisted of former parts of the Archbishopric of Mainz. Carl was awarded a Virilstimme in the Imperial, instead of the Count title of Leiningen- Dabo - Hard castle, he took the title of Imperial Prince of Leiningen, Count Palatine of Mosbach, Count Düren, Mr. Miltenberg, Amorbach, Bishop Home, Boxberg, Schüpf and Lauda.
But through media coverage and the influence of Napoleon in 1806, he lost his political power to the Grand Duchy of Baden. This occurred in 1810 from parts of the territory of the Grand Duchy of Hesse -Darmstadt, she passed it as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1816 to the Kingdom of Bavaria.