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unusual facts about Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt



Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

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

Leopold IV of Austria

Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (1371-1411), Habsburg Duke of the Leopoldinian Line, ruled from 1386

Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt

The Duke's Administrative Officer and close friend was Christian Raster, a German statesman.

Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe

After the rise of Nazism in Germany all three of his sons by his first wife became members of the party.

Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

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Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Through his father he was the nephew of Prince Leopold IV of Lippe who was married to his aunt Princess Bertha.

Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen

Anna married secondly to Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, second eldest child of Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld and his wife Countess Karoline of Wartensleben, on 26 April 1922 in Büdingen.

Principality of Lippe

The Principality of Lippe came to an end on 12 November 1918 with the abdication of Leopold IV, with Lippe becoming a Free State.


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