Prosper Louis, 7th Duke of Arenberg
Prosper Louis of Arenberg ( born April 28, 1785 Enghien, † February 27, 1861 in Brussels), Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot ( Aerschot ) and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen, Count of the Mark, etc. was ruler of the Holy Roman Reich, owner of the Grand Cross of the Belgian Order of Leopold, the Dutch lion north, the Prussian Black Eagle, of the Bavarian Order of St. Hubertus and St. Michael the Order, Officer of the French Legion of Honour, and Colonel of a French cavalry regiment.
Life
After his father Ludwig Engelbert had passed Arenberg (1750-1820) him in September 1803, the government of the duchy of Arenberg - Meppen, he was 7th Duke of Arenberg. The territory then comprising the county of Recklinghausen and the Office Meppen. In addition to Brussels Clemenswerth was temporarily his German residence. On 12 July 1806, was sovereign member of the Confederation of the Rhine and the rule should still get Dülmen added.
In 1806 he presented in Liège in addition to his Confederation of the Rhine - quota, a regiment of light cavalry on ( Chevau - Léger d' Arenberg ), whose commander and owner he was. The association was incorporated in 1808 in the French regular troops as the 27th Regiment of hunters on horseback, but retained its old name unofficially.
By a decree of Napoleon, the Duchy lost its sovereignty on December 13, 1810. Meppen was incorporated into the French Empire, the county Recklinghausen came to the Grand Duchy of Berg.
During the Spanish War Prosper Louis led his cavalry regiment itself in the field, was severely wounded in Arroyo Molinos on 28 October 1811 and came into British captivity, in which he remained until May 1814.
In 1815 he lost by a treaty between the Kingdom of Hanover and Prussia on May 29, the area Meppen at Hanover and Recklinghausen and Dülmen to Prussia, but Prosper Louis was able master of his possessions. As such, he was a member of the first chamber of the noble court of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1854 and received a hereditary seat in the Prussian House.
In 1831 he was a candidate of the Vatican for election as King of the Belgians. The Duke of Arenberg also gained great contributions to the completion of Cologne Cathedral. Mindful of reaching back to the Middle Ages bonds of his family to the city of Cologne, he was a member of the company founded in 1842 Central Cathedral Association in Cologne, which he wrote over a year Taler 1000 until his death in 1861.
Family
Prosper Louis married on February 3, 1808 Stephanie de deashers de la Pagerie, a niece of the French Empress Josephine, Napoleon had raised to a French princess. This marriage was in 1816 but divorced again and Prosper-Louis married on January 26, 1819 Marie Rosa Ludmilla von Lobkowitz, a daughter of Prince Anton Isidor von Lobkowitz, with whom he had nine ( seven surviving ) children:
- Luise Pauline Sidonie (* 1820)
- A son (* and † 1822)
- Flora Pauline Marie (* 1823)
- Engelbert August Anton (1824-1875)
- Franz Anton (1826-1910); his son Philip of Arenberg (1848-1906) canon in Eichstätt
- A daughter (* / † 1827)
- Karl Peter d' Alcantara, Joseph (1829-1831)
- Karl Maria Joseph (1831-1896) ∞ Julia Hunyady of Kéthely (1831-1919, formerly wife of Mihailo Obrenović III. , Prince of Serbia)
- Joseph Leonhard Balthasar (8 August 1833 - October 3, 1896 ) ∞ Franziska of Liechtenstein (Vienna, October 30, 1833 - June 6, 1894; see Arenbergpark )