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lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Carlos Federico de Leiningen" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Linange_(3e_prince_de_Linange)" title="Charles de Linange (3e prince de Linange) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Charles de Linange (3e prince de Linange)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl,_Pangeran_Leiningen_ke-3" title="Carl, Pangeran Leiningen ke-3 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Carl, Pangeran Leiningen ke-3" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_di_Leiningen" title="Carlo di Leiningen – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Carlo di Leiningen" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%9C,_%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9A_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%9F" title="קרל, נסיך ליינינגן – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קרל, נסיך ליינינגן" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84" title="كارل – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كارل" 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colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><i><a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Leiningen" title="Prince of Leiningen">Prince of Leiningen</a></i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image photo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Princes_Charles_of_Leiningen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Princes_Charles_of_Leiningen.jpg/220px-Princes_Charles_of_Leiningen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Princes_Charles_of_Leiningen.jpg/330px-Princes_Charles_of_Leiningen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Princes_Charles_of_Leiningen.jpg/440px-Princes_Charles_of_Leiningen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1661" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;padding-top:0.2em;">Karl in 1855</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Prime Minister of the <a href="/wiki/German_Empire_(1848-1849)" class="mw-redirect" title="German Empire (1848-1849)">German Empire</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">In office</th><td class="infobox-data">5 August 1848 – <span class="avoidwrap" style="display:inline-block;">6 September 1848</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Position established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anton_von_Schmerling" title="Anton von Schmerling">Anton von Schmerling</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Archduke_John_of_Austria" title="Archduke John of Austria">Archduke John of Austria</a><br />(<i>Regent</i>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1804-09-12</span>)</span>12 September 1804<br /><a href="/wiki/Amorbach" title="Amorbach">Amorbach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Leiningen" title="Principality of Leiningen">Principality of Leiningen</a><br /><small>(in modern <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>, Germany)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">13 November 1856<span style="display:none">(1856-11-13)</span> (aged 52)<br />Waldleiningen Castle, <a href="/wiki/Mudau" title="Mudau">Mörschenhardt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Baden" title="Grand Duchy of Baden">Grand Duchy of Baden</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style 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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernst,_Prince_of_Leiningen" title="Ernst, Prince of Leiningen">Ernst, Prince of Leiningen</a></li> <li>Prince Eduard</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:left">Names</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data nickname" style="text-align:left; padding-left:0.7em;">Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">House</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Leiningen_family" title="Leiningen family">Leiningen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Emich_Carl,_Prince_of_Leiningen" class="mw-redirect" title="Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen">Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Princess_Victoria_of_Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Karl, Prince of Leiningen</b>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a> (Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich; 12 September 1804 – 13 November 1856) was the third <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Leiningen" title="Prince of Leiningen">Prince of Leiningen</a> and maternal half-brother of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>. Leiningen served as a <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bavaria" title="Kingdom of Bavaria">Bavarian</a> lieutenant general, before he briefly played an important role in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> politics as the first Prime Minister of the <i><a href="/wiki/Provisorische_Zentralgewalt" title="Provisorische Zentralgewalt">Provisorische Zentralgewalt</a></i> government formed by the <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankfurt Parliament">Frankfurt Parliament</a> in 1848. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl,_Prince_of_Leiningen_(1804%E2%80%931856)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Descent">Descent</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl,_Prince_of_Leiningen_(1804%E2%80%931856)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Descent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A member of the Hardenburg branch of the <a href="/wiki/Leiningen_family" title="Leiningen family">House of Leiningen</a>, Karl was born in <a href="/wiki/Amorbach" title="Amorbach">Amorbach</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Emich_Karl,_Prince_of_Leiningen" class="mw-redirect" title="Emich Karl, Prince of Leiningen">Prince Emich Carl of Leiningen</a> (1763–1814) by his second marriage with <a href="/wiki/Princess_Victoria_of_Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld</a> (1786–1861). He was the only son, as Emich Carl's son by his first wife, Friedrich, had died in 1800. </p><p>Prince Emich Carl had received the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Leiningen" title="Principality of Leiningen">Principality of Leiningen</a> during the <a href="/wiki/German_mediatisation" title="German mediatisation">German mediatisation</a> (<i>Reichsdeputationshauptschluss</i>) in 1803, as a compensation for the lost <a href="/wiki/Hardenburg_(Bad_D%C3%BCrkheim)" title="Hardenburg (Bad Dürkheim)">Hardenburg</a> estates in the <a href="/wiki/Palatinate_(region)" title="Palatinate (region)">Palatinate</a> occupied by French revolutionary troops, and took his residence at the secularised <a href="/wiki/Amorbach_Abbey" title="Amorbach Abbey">Amorbach Abbey</a>. The princely territory, however, soon after passed to the newly established <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Baden" title="Grand Duchy of Baden">Grand Duchy of Baden</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bavaria" title="Kingdom of Bavaria">Kingdom of Bavaria</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Hesse" title="Grand Duchy of Hesse">Grand Duchy of Hesse</a>. Prince Emich Carl died on 4 July 1814 and Karl succeeded him as third Prince of Leiningen. On 11 July 1818, his widowed mother married <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward,_Duke_of_Kent_and_Strathearn" title="Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn">Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn</a>, the fourth son of King <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III of the United Kingdom</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Kew_Palace" title="Kew Palace">Kew Palace</a>, Surrey. In 1819, when the duchess's pregnancy was reaching full term, Karl and his younger sister, <a href="/wiki/Princess_Feodora_of_Leiningen" title="Princess Feodora of Leiningen">Princess Feodora</a>, were taken from Amorbach to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, where their half-sister, Princess Victoria of Kent, was born on 24 May at <a href="/wiki/Kensington_Palace" title="Kensington Palace">Kensington Palace</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karl_zu_Leiningen_Litho.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Karl_zu_Leiningen_Litho.jpg/262px-Karl_zu_Leiningen_Litho.jpg" decoding="async" width="262" height="393" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Karl_zu_Leiningen_Litho.jpg/393px-Karl_zu_Leiningen_Litho.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Karl_zu_Leiningen_Litho.jpg/524px-Karl_zu_Leiningen_Litho.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption>Carl zu Leiningen, lithograph by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kriehuber" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Kriehuber">Joseph Kriehuber</a> (1833)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage_and_issue">Marriage and issue</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl,_Prince_of_Leiningen_(1804%E2%80%931856)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marriage and issue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marie,_Princess_Leiningen,_Countess_of_Klebelsberg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Marie%2C_Princess_Leiningen%2C_Countess_of_Klebelsberg.jpg/262px-Marie%2C_Princess_Leiningen%2C_Countess_of_Klebelsberg.jpg" decoding="async" width="262" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Marie%2C_Princess_Leiningen%2C_Countess_of_Klebelsberg.jpg/393px-Marie%2C_Princess_Leiningen%2C_Countess_of_Klebelsberg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Marie%2C_Princess_Leiningen%2C_Countess_of_Klebelsberg.jpg/524px-Marie%2C_Princess_Leiningen%2C_Countess_of_Klebelsberg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1224" data-file-height="1437" /></a><figcaption>Karl's wife, Countess Marie of Klebelsberg-Thumburg</figcaption></figure> <p>On 13 February 1829, Karl married Countess Marie von <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klebelsberg_(Adelsgeschlecht)" class="extiw" title="de:Klebelsberg (Adelsgeschlecht)">Klebelsberg-Thumburg</a> (27 March 1806 – 28 October 1880), younger daughter of Count Maximilian von <a href="/wiki/File:Klebelsberg_Grafen-Wappen.jpg" title="File:Klebelsberg Grafen-Wappen.jpg">Klebelsberg-Thumburg</a> (1752-1811) and his wife, Maria Anna von <a href="/wiki/File:Turba_family_Coat_of_Arms.jpg" title="File:Turba family Coat of Arms.jpg">Turba</a> (1763-1833). They had two sons: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernst,_Prince_of_Leiningen" title="Ernst, Prince of Leiningen">Ernst, Prince of Leiningen</a> (9 November 1830 – 5 April 1904); married <a href="/wiki/Princess_Marie_of_Baden_(1834%E2%80%931899)" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Marie of Baden (1834–1899)">Princess Marie of Baden</a> on 11 September 1858. They had two children.</li> <li>Prince Eduard Friedrich Maximilian Johann of Leiningen (5 January 1833 – 9 April 1914). Never married.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minor_prince">Minor prince</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl,_Prince_of_Leiningen_(1804%E2%80%931856)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Minor prince"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Karl had attended a private school in <a href="/wiki/Bern" title="Bern">Bern</a> and from 1821 onwards studied law at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen" title="University of Göttingen">University of Göttingen</a> with the jurist <a href="/wiki/Karl_Friedrich_Eichhorn" title="Karl Friedrich Eichhorn">Karl Friedrich Eichhorn</a>, then one of the principal authorities on German constitutional law and leading proponent of the <a href="/wiki/German_Historical_School" class="mw-redirect" title="German Historical School">German Historical School</a> of jurisprudence. At the British court, his multifaceted interests in art were aroused. From 1828, he had Waldleiningen Castle near <a href="/wiki/Mudau" title="Mudau">Mörschenhardt</a> (named after <a href="/wiki/Waldleiningen" title="Waldleiningen">Waldleiningen</a> in the Palatinate) erected as his private residence, a <a href="/wiki/German_Romanticism" title="German Romanticism">Romantic</a> complex resembling <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Neo-Gothic</a> castles in Britain, such as <a href="/wiki/Abbotsford_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbotsford House">Abbotsford House</a>. </p><p>As a <a href="/wiki/Mediatized_Houses" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediatized Houses">mediatized house</a>, the Princes of the Leiningen were members of the <i><a href="/wiki/Landtag" title="Landtag">Landtag</a></i> diet in Baden, as well as in Bavaria and Hesse. Prince Karl became president of the Bavarian upper house (<i>Reichsrat</i>) in 1842 and also pursued a career in the <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_Army" title="Bavarian Army">Bavarian Army</a> as Lieutenant general <a href="/wiki/%C3%80_la_suite" title="À la suite">à la suite</a> of the Cavalry. On 20 April 1842, he and 20 other noblemen gathered at <a href="/wiki/Biebrich_Palace" title="Biebrich Palace">Biebrich Palace</a>, where they established the <a href="/wiki/Adelsverein" title="Adelsverein">Adelsverein</a> to organize the settlement of German emigrants in <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Texas" title="Republic of Texas">Texas</a>; Karl was elected president of the society. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1848:_Brief_moment_of_glory">1848: Brief moment of glory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl,_Prince_of_Leiningen_(1804%E2%80%931856)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1848: Brief moment of glory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the <a href="/wiki/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%9349" class="mw-redirect" title="German revolutions of 1848–49">German revolutions of 1848–49</a>, Leiningen had achieved much reputation as a <a href="/wiki/Liberalism_in_Germany" title="Liberalism in Germany">liberal</a> reformer and <a href="/wiki/Freethought" title="Freethought">freethinker</a>. He advocated the implementation of <a href="/wiki/Parliamentarism" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentarism">parliamentarism</a> and openly criticized aristocracy's privileges; therefore, he was appointed Prime Minister of Revolutionary Germany by Regent (<i><a href="/wiki/Reichsverweser" title="Reichsverweser">Reichsverweser</a></i>) <a href="/wiki/Archduke_John_of_Austria" title="Archduke John of Austria">Archduke John of Austria</a> on 6 August 1848. With a Catholic <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a> and a Lutheran <a href="/wiki/Head_of_government" title="Head of government">head of government</a>, an equilibrium was reached in <a href="/wiki/Austria%E2%80%93Prussia_rivalry" class="mw-redirect" title="Austria–Prussia rivalry">German dualism</a>; moreover, Leiningen's close relations to the British Royal House were generally appreciated. His cabinet initially could rely on a liberal and left-wing majority in the newly established Frankfurt Parliament, however, as early as on 5 September, he resigned over the <a href="/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question" class="mw-redirect" title="Schleswig-Holstein Question">Schleswig-Holstein Question</a> when in the <a href="/wiki/First_Schleswig_War" title="First Schleswig War">First Schleswig War</a> King <a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_IV_of_Prussia" title="Frederick William IV of Prussia">Frederick William IV of Prussia</a> unilaterally signed an armistice with Denmark at Malmö. The delegates of the Frankfurt assembly reacted with outrage and Leiningen, unable to assert the powers of the central authority, was forced to step down. He was succeeded by the <a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austrian</a> politician <a href="/wiki/Anton_von_Schmerling" title="Anton von Schmerling">Anton von Schmerling</a>, who acted as prime minister until December. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Waldleiningen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Waldleiningen.jpg/262px-Waldleiningen.jpg" decoding="async" width="262" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Waldleiningen.jpg/393px-Waldleiningen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Waldleiningen.jpg/524px-Waldleiningen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="1638" /></a><figcaption>Waldleinlingen Castle</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_life_and_death">Later life and death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl,_Prince_of_Leiningen_(1804%E2%80%931856)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Later life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1851, Karl also resigned as president of the Adelsverein and was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Hermann,_Prince_of_Wied" title="Hermann, Prince of Wied">Prince Hermann of Wied</a>. Shortly after his half sister's daughter <a href="/wiki/Victoria,_Princess_Royal" title="Victoria, Princess Royal">Victoria</a> became engaged to <a href="/wiki/Frederick_III,_German_Emperor" title="Frederick III, German Emperor">Prince Frederick of Prussia</a>, in 1855, he suffered a severe <a href="/wiki/Apoplexy" title="Apoplexy">apoplectic</a> attack. A second attack in November the following year was fatal, and he died at Waldleiningen Castle at the age of fifty-two, with his sister Feodora at his bedside. </p><p>Upon hearing of her half-brother's death, <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>, whom she referred by his English name Charles, wrote in her journal: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"I cannot realise that my dearly loved only brother has been taken from us! Whilst I write this, I feel as if it could only be a bad dream, from which I might yet awake, to see his dear face, hear his joyous voice & laugh, & enjoy his delightful company. It seems quite impossible, that dear Charles, the personification of life, health, & merriment, whom I can only see as such before me, — should be no longer in this world, & that I shall never see him again! It is too dreadful, too hard! But we must submit to God's will, & I do feel, that in poor dear Charles's case, his passing away is a mercy."</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Queen Victoria's Journals, Thursday 13th November 1856<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl,_Prince_of_Leiningen_(1804%E2%80%931856)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Baden_%281891%E2%80%931918%29.svg/23px-Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Baden_%281891%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Baden_%281891%E2%80%931918%29.svg/35px-Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Baden_%281891%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Baden_%281891%E2%80%931918%29.svg/46px-Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Baden_%281891%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Baden" title="Grand Duchy of Baden">Baden</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Z%C3%A4hringer_Lion" title="Order of the Zähringer Lion">Grand Cross of the Zähringer Lion</a>, <i>1823</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_Order_of_Fidelity" title="House Order of Fidelity">Grand Cross of the House Order of Fidelity</a>, <i>1825</i></li></ul></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg/45px-Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hanover" title="Kingdom of Hanover">Kingdom of Hanover</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Guelphic_Order" title="Royal Guelphic Order">Royal Guelphic Order</a>, <i>1824</i><sup id="cite_ref-(Staat)1835_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-(Staat)1835-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Flag_of_Bavaria_%28striped%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bavaria_%28striped%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Flag_of_Bavaria_%28striped%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bavaria_%28striped%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Flag_of_Bavaria_%28striped%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bavaria_%28striped%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bavaria" title="Kingdom of Bavaria">Kingdom of Bavaria</a>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Hubert" title="Order of Saint Hubert">Knight of St. Hubert</a>, <i>1825</i><sup id="cite_ref-Bayern1849_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bayern1849-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_%281815-1918%29.svg/23px-Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_%281815-1918%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_%281815-1918%29.svg/35px-Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_%281815-1918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_%281815-1918%29.svg/45px-Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_%281815-1918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Saxony" title="Kingdom of Saxony">Kingdom of Saxony</a>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Rue_Crown" title="Order of the Rue Crown">Knight of the Rue Crown</a>, <i>1825</i><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha" title="Saxe-Coburg and Gotha"><img alt="Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281911-1920%29.svg/23px-Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281911-1920%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281911-1920%29.svg/35px-Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281911-1920%29.svg.png 1.5x, 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/></a></span></span> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Meiningen" title="Saxe-Meiningen"><img alt="Saxe-Meiningen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281826-1911%29.svg/23px-Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281826-1911%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281826-1911%29.svg/35px-Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281826-1911%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281826-1911%29.svg/45px-Flagge_Herzogtum_Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha_%281826-1911%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ernestine_duchies" title="Ernestine duchies">Ernestine duchies</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Ernestine_House_Order" title="Saxe-Ernestine House Order">Saxe-Ernestine House Order</a>, <i>April 1834</i><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Flag_of_Portugal_%281830%E2%80%931910%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal_%281830%E2%80%931910%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Flag_of_Portugal_%281830%E2%80%931910%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal_%281830%E2%80%931910%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Flag_of_Portugal_%281830%E2%80%931910%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal_%281830%E2%80%931910%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Portugal" title="Kingdom of Portugal">Kingdom of Portugal</a>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Tower_and_Sword" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of the Tower and Sword">Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword</a>, <i>3 June 1836</i><sup id="cite_ref-Agraciamentos_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Agraciamentos-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span data-sort-value="United Kingdom"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">Knight of the Garter</a>, <i>14 July 1837</i><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Hessen_ohne_Wappen.svg/19px-Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Hessen_ohne_Wappen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Hessen_ohne_Wappen.svg/29px-Flagge_Gro%C3%9Fherzogtum_Hessen_ohne_Wappen.svg.png 1.5x, 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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886387087">.mw-parser-output table.ahnentafel{border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0;line-height:130%}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel tr{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel-t{border-top:#000 solid 1px;border-left:#000 solid 1px}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel-b{border-bottom:#000 solid 1px;border-left:#000 solid 1px}</style><div class="noresize"><table class="collapsible collapsed" style="margin:0.3em auto;clear:none;min-width:60em;width:auto;font-size:88%;border:1px solid #aaa"><tbody><tr><th style="padding:0.2em 0.3em 0.2em 4.3em;background:none;color:inherit;width:auto">Ancestors of Karl, Prince of Leiningen (1804–1856)</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center"><table class="ahnentafel" style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><tbody><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="28" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="13"> </td><td rowspan="12" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="5"> </td><td rowspan="4" colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">8. <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Magnus,_Count_of_Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Friedrich Magnus, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg">Friedrich Magnus, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">4. <a href="/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Wilhelm,_Prince_of_Leiningen" class="mw-redirect" title="Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Leiningen">Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Leiningen</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">9. Countess Anna Christine Eleonore of Wurmbrand-Stuppach</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fb9;">2. <a href="/wiki/Emich_Carl,_Prince_of_Leiningen" class="mw-redirect" title="Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen">Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">10. Wilhelm Karl Ludwig, Count of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">5. <a href="/wiki/Countess_Christiane_Wilhelmine_of_Solms-R%C3%B6delheim-Assenheim" class="mw-redirect" title="Countess Christiane Wilhelmine of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim">Countess Christiane Wilhelmine of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">11. Countess Maria Anna Magdalena of Wurmbrand-Stuppach</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fcc;">1. <b>Carl, Prince of Leiningen</b></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="11"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="28" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">12. <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Frederick,_Duke_of_Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td 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</td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fb9;">3. <a href="/wiki/Princess_Victoria_of_Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="13"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="12" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">14. <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_XXIV,_Count_Reuss_of_Ebersdorf" title="Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf">Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">7. <a href="/wiki/Countess_Augusta_Reuss_of_Ebersdorf" title="Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf">Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="5"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="4" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">15. <a href="/wiki/Countess_Karoline_Ernestine_of_Erbach-Sch%C3%B6nberg" title="Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg">Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 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