Ferdinand Maximilian, Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach

Ferdinand Maximilian III
Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach
Reign	9 October 1847 – 5 June 1903
Predecessor	Adolph II, Count of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach
Successor	Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach
Born	(1824-10-24)24 October 1824 Wächtersbach
Died	5 June 1903(1903-06-05) (aged 78) Wächtersbach
Spouse	Princess Auguste of Hanau ​ ​ (m. 1849; died 1887)​
House	Isenburg
Father	Adolph II, Count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach
Mother	Countess Philippine zu Ysenburg-Philippseich

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.

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]

• Friedrich Wilhelm (1850–1933), who married Countess Anna Dobrženský von Dobrženitz (1852–1913), in 1879.[9]
• Gertrude Philippine Alexandra Maria Auguste Luise (1855–1932), who married Prince Adalbert of Ysenburg and Büdingen, a son of Ernst Casimir II, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen, in 1875. They divorced in 1877 and she married Robert, Baron von Pagenhardt.[7]
• Gerta Auguste (1863–1945), who married Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach,[10] the eldest son of the Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Princess Augusta of Württemberg.[11][12]
• Wilhelm Philipp Otto Maximilian (1867–1904), who assisted Gen. Oskar von Watter; he died unmarried.[13]

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

Ancestry

Ancestors of Ferdinand Maximilian, Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach

8. Ferdinand Maximilian II, Count of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach 4. Louis Maximilian I, Count of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach 9. Countess Ernestine Wilhelmine of Stolberg-Gedern 2. Adolph II, Count of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach 10. Johann Ludwig, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein 5. Countess Auguste zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein 11. Countess Friederike of Pückler-Limpurg 1. Ferdinand Maximilian III, Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach 12. Christian, Count of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Philippseich 6. Heinrich Ferdinand, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen-Philippseich 13. Countess Konstanze Sophie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg 3. Countess Philipine of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Philippseich 14. Moritz Casimir II, Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg 7. Countess Amalia of Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda 15. Countess Helene Charlotte Sophie von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

References

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3. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (in German). C.A. Starke. 2004. p. 233. ISBN 978-3-7980-0833-5. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
4. G, Simon (1865). Bd. Das Ysenburg und Büdingen'sche Urkundenbuch (in German). Brönner. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
5. Balla, Ignác (1913). The Romance of the Rothschilds. E. Nash. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-9814-1515-1. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
6. 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.
7. Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique (in French). J. Perthes. 1880. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
8. 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.
9. Born, Karl Erich (1966). Quellensammlung zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialpolitik, 1867 bis 1914: Begründet von Peter Rassow. Im Auftrag der Historischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur hrsg (in German). F. Steiner. pp. 170, 564. ISBN 978-3-534-13437-3. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
10. Staatschandbuch für das Grossherzogtum Sachsen (in German). 1900. p. 10. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
11. "PRINCESS WHO COST A THRONE IS VISITING HERE; Countess Ostheim, Who Married the Heir Apparent of Saxe-Weimer, Is in New York -- A Former Stage Beauty". The New York Times. 27 November 1910. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
12. Engelmann, Bernt (1984). Germany Without Jews. Bantam Books. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-553-24445-8. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
13. 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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