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Isenburg-Büdingen absorbed into Isenburg-Birstein: Charles William Louis: 7 May 1763 Meerholz Son of John Frederick William and Caroline of Salm: 4 May 1802 – 12 July 1806: County of Meerholz: Caroline of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (13 September 1764 – 28 April 1833) 29 March 1785 Wittgenstein six children 17 April 1832 Meerholz aged 68
The Lordship of Limburg passed to the House of Isenburg between 1219 and 1221 as an inheritance through the male line of the extinct House of Leiningen. Gerlach IV of Isenburg who succeeded, with his brother Henry II, their father Count Henry I of Isenburg-Grenzau between 1220 and 1227, chose Limburg as his residence.
John I of Isenburg-Limburg, "The blind Lord" (died 29 September 1312) was from 1289 Count of (Isenburg-) Limburg and the head of the House of Limburg. The core territory of the Lordship of Limburg consisted of the city of Limburg an der Lahn and several surrounding villages.
Gerlach V of Isenburg-Limburg (died 14 April 1355), also called Gerlach II "the Elder" of Limburg, was Count of Isenburg-Limburg. He reigned between 1312 and 1355 as Lord of Limburg an der Lahn , and the head of the House of Limburg.
It was partitioned between itself, Isenburg-Meerholz and Isenburg-Wächtersbach in 1673, and was mediatised to Isenburg in 1806. In 1816 Isenburg was partitioned between the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel. Count Ernest Casimir (1801-1848) was elevated to the rank of prince by Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, in
John II of Isenburg-Limburg was Lord of Limburg an der Lahn and the last Count of Isenburg-Limburg from 1365 until 1406. He is sometimes designated John III to differentiate him from his non-ruling older half-brother John II (died before 1353). [1] He was the third son of Count Gerlach V of Isenburg-Limburg from his second marriage (fourth ...
He succeeded Count von Fontaine as Generalfeldmeister of the Flemish army, since he fell in battle. On 29 September 1645 he was also appointed head of finances (grand treasurer) of the Netherlands, the tax administration of the king of Spain. Isenburg lived in Brussels, where he also died, his county was looked after by administrators.
It was not until June 28, 1340 that he called himself Count of Wied, Lord of Isenburg and Braunsberg, and was thus able to merge the old Wied possessions with the Isenburg-Braunsberg possessions. This expanded territory of the County of Wied-Isenburg, which he represented with 88 vassals, remained essentially almost unchanged until 1806.