Count Karl Leopold von Schlieben explained

Count Karl Leopold
Spouse:	Countess Marie Eleanore von Lehndorff
Issue:	Marie Karoline, Countess Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlieben Friederike Amalie, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Birth Date:	3 February 1723
Birth Place:	Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia
Death Place:	Königsberg, East Prussia
Father:	Count George Adam von Schlieben
Mother:	Countess Katharina Dorothea Finck von Finckenstein

Count Karl Leopold von Schlieben (de|Karl Leopold Graf von Schlieben; 3 February 1723 – 18 April 1788) was the Prussian Minister of War^[1] between 1769 and 1772.

Early life

He was born in Magdeburg. His father was Count George Adam von Schlieben (de|Georg Adam Graf von Schlieben, 5 February 1688 – 15 June 1737) and his mother was Countess Katharina Dorothea Finck von Finckenstein.

Marriage and issue

He married Countess Marie Eleanore von Lehndorff (1723-1800) on 18 January 1747 in Königsberg. They had two daughters:

• Countess Marie Karoline of Schlieben (28 January 1752 – 2 August 1832); married Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlieben (died in 1783) and had issue. Through their only daughter Amalie (1777-1845), she is an ancestress of the Princes of Dohna-Schlobitten and Princes of Hochberg-Pless.^[2]
• Countess Friederike Amalie of Schlieben (28 February 1757 – 17 December 1827); married, on 9 March 1780 in Königsberg, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and had issue. Through her son, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, she is an ancestress of the Royal Houses of Denmark, Greece, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

Count Karl Leopold died in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia.

Notes and References

1. http://www.burkespeerage.com/articles/peerage/HRH-The-Duke-of-Edinburgh.pdf Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, page 328
2. Web site: Descendancy for Caroline, Gräfin von Schlieben : Genealogics .