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unusual facts about Leiningen


Leiningen, Germany

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Emmelshausen, whose seat is in the like-named town.


Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg

Charles August was the second son of John Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg and Maria Polyxena of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg.

Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

Christian of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels (17 July 1689 in Wanfried – 21 October 1755 in Eschwege) was a son of Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Wanfried (1649-1711) and his second wife Alexandrine Juliane of Leiningen-Dagsburg (d. 1703).

Conrad III of Dhaun

An army of 600 cavalry and additional infantry led by Count Gottfried of Leiningen (a younger relative of the cathedral dean of the same name), attacked northern Hesse from Fritzlar, an exclave of Mainz, and devastated the area around Gudensberg, Felsberg and Melsungen.

Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg

## married around 1730 to Sofie Eleonore (born: 1710 in Dagsburg; died: 19 June 1768), daughter of Count Leopold Emich of Leiningen (1685–1719) and his wife Countess Charlotte Amalie of Leiningen (1682–1729)

Emich Christian of Leiningen-Dagsburg

Emich Christian of Leiningen-Dagsburg (29 March 1642 in Dagsburg – 27 April 1702) was, by descent, Count of Leiningen and Dagsburg and, by inheritance, Lord of Broich, Oberstein and Bürgel.

Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen

Prince Emich of Leiningen (18 January 1866 – 18 July 1939); became 5th Prince of Leiningen on his father's death in 1904; married Princess Feodore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1866–1932).

Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Frederick I married on 10 August 1622 in Butzbach with Margaret Elisabeth (1604–1667), daughter of Count Christoph of Leiningen-Westerburg.

George August, Count of Nassau-Idstein

Auguste Friederike (born: 17 August 1699 in Idstein; died: 8 June 1750 in Kirchheim unter Teck), a Princess of Nassau-Idstein, married 17 August 1723 with Prince Charles August of Nassau-Weilburg (born: 17 September 1685 in Weilburg; died: 9 November 1753 ibid), son of Count John Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg and Countess Maria Polyxena of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg

Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line

Heinrich XLV was born at Ebersdorf, Reuss Younger Line, only surviving son of Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1858–1928), (son of Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg) and his wife, Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1864–1929), (daughter of Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Feodora of Leiningen).

John, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

John Charles August was a son of Count George William of Leiningen-Dagsburg (born 8 March 1636 in Heidesheim am Rhein; died 18 July 1672 in Oberstein) and his wife Countess Anna Elisabeth von Daun-Falkenstein (born: 1 January 1636; died: 4 June 1685 at Schloss Broich).

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg (30 June 1604 in Schadeck, today part of Runkel – 13 August 1667 at Wiesenburg Castle), was a Countess of Leiningen and regent of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg.

Meusebach–Comanche Treaty

Only five Adelsverein settlements were attempted in the Fisher-Miller land grant area: Bettina, Castell, Leiningen, Meerholz, and Schoenburg.

Princess Alexandra of Hanover

Alexandra, Princess of Leiningen (b. 1959), daughter of Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover, wife of Andreas, 8th Prince of Leiningen

Robert III, Count of Nassau

Robert married Elizabeth of Schaumburg (died ca. 1235-38), daughter and heiress of Count Emicho III of Leiningen.

The Naked Jungle

In 1901, mail order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.


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