Prince Paul of Württemberg
Paul Karl Friedrich August, Duke of Württemberg ( born January 19, 1785 St. Petersburg, † April 16, 1852 in Paris) was a Prince of Württemberg and grandfather of King William II of Württemberg.
Biography
Paul was a son of King Frederick I of Württemberg and Princess Auguste Caroline of Brunswick -Wolfenbüttel. In the years 1806 to 1808 Prince Paul fought as an officer in the service of the King of Prussia against Napoleon. This was done against the will of his father. In 1808 Prince Paul came to Württemberg and was reconciled with his father, but refused in 1812 to take part in the Russian campaign Napoleon. In 1813 he entered the service of the Russian Tsar Alexander I and took part in the wars of liberation. In 1814 he resigned as a Russian lieutenant general.
From 1817 until his death in 1852, lived Prince Paul in Paris. Since 1813, the relations of Prince Paul were to his brother, the King Wilhelm I of Württemberg, always very tense with his father and after his death in 1816. From 1817 to 1819 Paul interfered in the constitutional struggles and took a stand against the House of Württemberg Act and the regulations governing appanage. A relevant Appellation in turn to the Bundestag in Frankfurt but failed. As a prince of the royal house was Paul Member of the First Chamber of the Württemberg Landtag, whose meetings he attended from 1822 to 1847. Between 1841 and 1843 he stood at the Estates multiple action against the king. A few months before his death he converted to the Catholic faith. His grave is located in the Roman Catholic section of the vault in the Ludwigsburg Castle Church.
Progeny
On September 28, 1805 married Prince Paul in Ludwigsburg Wettin Princess Charlotte of Saxe- Hildburghausen ( 1787-1847 ), a daughter of Duke Frederick of Saxony -Hildburghausen. 1818 Prince Paul separated from his wife. A legal divorce was rejected by the King of Württemberg.
The marriage produced five children:
- Charlotte (1807-1873), later Grand Duchess Helen Pavlovna Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich ∞ 1824 Romanov ( 1798-1849 )
- Friedrich (1808-1870) ∞ 1845 Catherine of Württemberg ( 1821-1898 ), daughter of King William I of Württemberg
- Karl (1809-1810)
- Pauline (1810-1856) ∞ 1829 Duke Wilhelm of Nassau ( 1792-1839 )
- August (1813-1885) ∞ 1868 Marie Bethge ( 1830-1869 ), as "Woman of Ward Mountain" raised to the peerage
With the actress Friederike Margarethe Porth (1776-1860), which at this time widow of actor Jacob Heinrich Voss (1762-1804), was fathered an illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul, Adelheid Pauline Caroline (1805-1872), the later usually called Karoline been. Under the name Karoline von Rottenburg she married in 1836 the Bavarian Baron Karl Maximilian von Pfeffel ( 1811-1890 ). Both are the Urururgroßeltern by Boris Johnson.
After the death of his wife Charlotte married Prince Paul in 1848 in morganatic marriage, the Catholic Lady Magdalene ( Madeleine ) Creux y Ximenes, widow of Sir Samuel Ford Whittingham ( 1772-1841 ), which had Spanish and English roots. She was his long -term lover and the mother of his daughter Pauline Madeleine Ximenes (1825-1905), which was in 1841 raised to the Countess von Helfenstein. Countess Pauline married in 1843 in Paris the Count Gustave de Monttessuy.
Honors and Awards
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
- Knight's Cross of the Royal Military Order of Merit
- 1812 Black Eagle Order
- Red Eagle Order 1st Class
- Royal Bavarian Order of St. Hubert
- Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honour