Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Explained

Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a County, and later Principality in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The name Hohenlohe derives from the castle of Hohenloch near Uffenheim in Mittelfranken, which came into the possession of the descendants of Conrad of Weikersheim by 1178.^[1]

History

Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was partitioned from the lands held by the descendants of Kraft von Hohenlohe, who was made an Imperial count in 1450.^[1] The Hohenlohe territories were divided between the brothers Count Ludwig Kasimir (1517-1568) (of the senior Neuenstein line, progenitors of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Hohenlohe-Oehringen branches) and Count Eberhard (1535-1570), founder of the various Hohenlohe-Waldenburg branches.^[1]

The Schillingsfürst line descends from Count Ludwig Gustav (1634-1697), whose descendant Philip Ernest obtained the erection of his fiefs into a principality within the Holy Roman Empire, enjoying Imperial immediacy, in 1744.^[1] The county of Waldenburg was added to the principality in 1757. It was mediatised to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806.

Three branches are extant – those of Waldenburg, Ratibor und Corvey, and Schillingsfürst.^[1] The members of the house bear the style of "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst" or "Prince/Princess von Ratibor und Corvey, Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst" or "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, von Ratibor und Corvey" or "Prince/Princess von Ratibor und Corvey" or "Prince/Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, von Ratibor und Corvey", depending upon which of the four sub-lines of the Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst branch they belong to.^[1]

Counts (1688–1744)

Ludwig Gustav 1688-1697
Philip Ernest 1697-1744 (became 1st Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst)

Princes (1744–present)

The following are the princes from 1744 until the present:^[1]

Philip Ernest, 1st Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1744-1750 (1663-1759)
- Charles Albert I, 2nd Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1750-1793 (1719-1793)
  - Charles Albert II, 3rd Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1793–1796 (1742-1796)
    - Charles Albert III, 4th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1796–1843 (1776-1843)
      - Friedrich Karl I, 5th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1843-1884 (1814-1884)
        Nikolaus, 6th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1884–1886 (1841-1886)
        
        Friedrich Karl II, 7th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1886–1924 (1846-1924)
        Friedrich Karl III, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1924-1982 (1908-1982)
        Friedrich Karl IV, 9th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1982–2017 (1933-2017)
        
        Hubertus zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1935-2021)
        Felix zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, 10th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 2017–present (b. 1963)
        Prince Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1995) heir presumptive
        
        Prince Albrecht zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 2002)
        
        Prince Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1965)
        
        Prince Maximilian zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1967)
    - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1794-1849)
    - Franz Joseph, 1st Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1787-1841), founder of the Ratibor and Corvey lines

External links

European Heraldry page

Notes and References

Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XV. "Hohenlohe". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1997, pp. 227-229, 252-255, 265. .