Dominic Marquard, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort explained

Dominic Marquard
Full Name:German: Dominik Marquard
Reign:26 December 1718 – 11 March 1735
Reign-Type:Period
Predecessor:Maximilian Karl
Successor:Charles Thomas
Succession:Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Spouse:Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Wanfried
Issue:Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
House:House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Father:Maximilian Karl, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Mother:Countess Maria Polyxena Khuen von Lichtenberg und Belasi
Birth Date:7 November 1690
Birth Place:Wertheim
Death Place:Venice

Dominic Marquard, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (7 November 1690 – 11 March 1735) was the second Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort.

He was the sixth son and ninth child of Maximilian Karl Albert, last Count and first Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1656 - 1718), and his wife Countess Maria Polyxena Khuen von Lichtenberg und Belasi (1658 - 1712). He was named after Marquard Sebastian von Schenk von Stauffenberg, (1644–1693) Prince-Bishop of Bamberg, who was his godfather.

On 28 February 1712, he married Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Wanfried (1688 - 1728) a daughter of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried by his second wife Countess Juliane Alexandrine of Leiningen-Dagsburg. Since his older brother had already died, unmarried and without children, at that time he was already Hereditary Prince. Dominic Marquard and Christine had thirteen children, nine of whom survived to adulthood:

In 1718, he succeeded his father, and acquired various possessions that should influence the history of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim; in 1720 the Lordship of Haid and its castle in Bohemia, in 1721 the small market town Kleinheubach from the possession of the Counts of Erbach and 1730 the Lordship of Rosenberg in Baden, which derived the Catholic line of the family.

On 17 July 1728, the wife died in childbirth. Dominic died in 1735, in Venice, where he had gone to attend the Carnival in disguise, and was buried there, but his heart was moved to the church of Wertheim.

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