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Ferdinand Maximilian, Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach

Ferdinand Maximilian, Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach

Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach


Ferdinand Maximilian III of Ysenburg-Wächtersbach (24 October 1824 – 5 June 1903) was the head of the Wächtersbach branch of the House of Ysenburg and the first Prince of Isenburg-Budingen-Wächtersbach.

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Early life

Prince Ferdinand Maximilian III was born on 24 October 1824 in Wächtersbach. He was the only child of Adolph II, Count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach and Countess Philippine zu Ysenburg-Philippseich.[1]

His paternal grandparents were Louis Maximilian I of Isenburg-Wächtersbach and Countess Auguste of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein.[2] His maternal grandparents were Heinrich Ferdinand, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen-Philippseich and Countess Amalia of Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda.[3]

Career

In 1847, following the death of his father, he became the ruling Count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach. From 1856 to 1903 he was a member of the first chamber of the State Parliament of the Grand Duchy of Hesse,[4] although from 1875 to 1887, he was represented by his son Friedrich Wilhelm. From 1868 to 1885, he was a member of the Kurhessian Municipal Parliament of the Prussian administrative district of Kassel and the provincial parliament of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau.[5][6]

Personal life

His wife, Princess Auguste von Hanau, c.1850-60.

On 17 July 1849, he married Countess Auguste Marie Gertrude von Schaumburg, then Princess Auguste von Hanau (1829–1887), in Wilhelmshöhe.[7] Princess Auguste was the eldest daughter of the Frederick William, Elector of Hesse and his morganatic wife, Gertrude Falkenstein, Countess von Schaumburg, then Princess von Hanau. Together, they were the parents of:[8]

His wife died on 18 September 1887. Prince Ferdinand Maximilian III died on 5 June 1903 in Wächtersbach.

Ancestry

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References

  1. Boetticher, Jac Gottlieb Isaak (1800). A Geographical, Historical and Political Description of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia: With a Gazetteer of Reference to the Principal Places in Those Countries. John Stockdale. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  2. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (in German). C.A. Starke. 2004. p. 233. ISBN 978-3-7980-0833-5. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  3. G, Simon (1865). Bd. Das Ysenburg und Büdingen'sche Urkundenbuch (in German). Brönner. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  4. Balla, Ignác (1913). The Romance of the Rothschilds. E. Nash. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-9814-1515-1. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  5. Jomini, General Baron Antoine Henri de (18 February 2013). Treatise On Grand Military Operations: Or A Critical And Military History Of The Wars Of Frederick The Great –. Pickle Partners Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908902-73-3. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  6. Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique (in French). J. Perthes. 1880. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  7. Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et; Raineval, Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe. Burke's Peerage. p. 817. ISBN 978-0-85011-028-9. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  8. Staatschandbuch für das Grossherzogtum Sachsen (in German). 1900. p. 10. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  9. Engelmann, Bernt (1984). Germany Without Jews. Bantam Books. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-553-24445-8. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  10. Diehl, James M. (1977). Paramilitary Politics in Weimar Germany. Indiana University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-253-34292-8. Retrieved 28 January 2022.

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