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16 unusual facts about Leopold III


Friedrich Graf von Waldersee

Friedrich Graf von Waldersee was a son of Franz Graf Waldersee, a son of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau.

Friedrich von Matthisson

In 1794 he was appointed reader and traveling companion to Princess Louisa of Anhalt-Dessau (wife of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau).

Jonen

In 1376 Duke Leopold of Austria pledged the rights to the low justice in the Kelleramt (of which Jonen was part) to Gottfried Milliner of Zurich.

Karneid Castle

The Dukes of Austria award it to Friedrich von Greifenstein and Hans Berger, Duke Leopold's chamberlain.

Leopold III

Leopold III, Duke of Austria (1351–1386), co-Archduke of Austria and co-Duke of Styria

Leopold III of Austria

Leopold III, Duke of Austria, (1351–1386), Duke of Styria, Carinthia, Tyrol, and Vorderösterreich of House of Habsburg, died in Battle of Sempach

Leopold III, Margrave of Austria, the Saint (1050–1136), Margrave of Austria from the house of Babenberg

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

In Charlottenburg on 25 July 1767 Leopold married his cousin Louise Henriette Wilhelmine (b. Różanki, Brandenburg, 24 September 1750 – d. Dessau, 21 December 1811), daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by his wife Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, a sister of his father.

#Count Franz John George of Waldersee (b. Dessau, 5 September 1763 – d. Dessau, 30 May 1823), married in Dessau on 20 May 1787 to Countess Louise of Anhalt (morganatic granddaughter of the Hereditary Prince William Gustav, eldest son and heir of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau).

As the head of the senior Anhalt branch, he could not earlier by etiquette receive his kinsmen, the Princes of Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg, who were raised to that rank before him.

He was succeeded by his eldest grandson Leopold IV, because his son, the Hereditary Prince Frederick, had predeceased him.

In 1812 Leopold became regent of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen during the minority of Duke Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil.

#Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 27 December 1769 – d. Dessau, 27 May 1814).

Lippe House Order

The Princely House of Lippe House Order simply known as the Lippe House Order was a German medal created by Prince Leopold III and Adolf I Georg of Schaumburg-Lippe on 25 October 1869 donated to people for faithful services for the country and has engraved For Loyalty and Merit.

Runkelstein Castle

Niklaus was counselor and financier of the Count of Tyrol, Leopold III, Duke of Austria, which allowed them to buy the castle a type of residence unfitting in this time for people of their rank.

Wörlitz Synagogue

The Wörlitz Synagogue is a synagogue built in 1790 by order of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau.


Ladislaus Sunthaym

Thea abbot of Klosterneuburg in 1485 asked Sunthaym to compile a family history of Leopold III, Duke of Austria in connection with the duke's canonization.

Marquard of Randeck

Marquard received a state with numerous rebellions, such as those of Gualtiero Bertoldo IV of Spilimbergo and of the lords of Duino, and in war with Albert III and Leopold III of Austria.

Polemon leopoldi

The specific name or epithet, leopoldi, is in honor of Leopold III, King of the Belgians.

Sonder- und Ehrenhaft

Leopold III, King of Belgium, detained first at the Royal Castle of Laeken, then at Hirschstein in Saxony from June 1944 to March 1945, and then at Strobl, Austria.

Treaty of Neuberg

In the Treaty of Neuberg, concluded between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III on September 9, 1379 in Neuberg an der Mürz, the Habsburg lands were divided between the two brothers.