Charles Albert III | |
Full Name: | German: Karl Albrecht Philipp Joseph |
Reign: | 14 June 1796 - 15 June 1843 |
Reign-Type: | Period |
Succession: | Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst |
Spouse: | Princess Auguste of Isenburg and Büdingen in Birstein Princess Leopodine of Fürstenberg |
Issue: | Katharina, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |
House: | Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst |
Father: | Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst |
Mother: | Baroness Judith Reviczky de Revisnye |
Birth Date: | 28 February 1776 |
Birth Place: | Vienna |
Death Place: | Bad Mergentheim |
Charles Albert III, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (28 February 1776 – 15 June 1843) was the 4th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst from 1796 to 1843.
Charles Albert III was the second child and first son of Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1742-1796), by his second wife, the Hungarian Baroness Judith Reviczky de Revisnye (1751-1836). His brother Franz Joseph (1787-1841) was the founder of the branch of the Dukes of Ratibor and Princes of Corvey.
On 11 July 1797 in Munich, he married his first wife Princess Auguste of Isenburg and Büdingen in Birstein a granddaughter of Wolfgang Ernst I of Isenburg-Birstein from his third marriage, they had three children prior Augusta's death in 1803, only one of which became adult.
Once widower, he married again on 30 May 1813 in Heiligenberg with Princess Leopodine of Fürstenberg (1791-1844), daughter of Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg (1760-1799) and Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1767-1822) daughter of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis. They had four children:
Prince Charles Albert and Princess Leopoldine separated few years later, with the Prince withdrawing to live in his Hohenlohe estates.