Dominic Marquard, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

Dominic Marquard
Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Period26 December 1718 – 11 March 1735
PredecessorMaximilian Karl
SuccessorCharles Thomas
Born(1690-11-07)7 November 1690
Wertheim
Died11 March 1735(1735-03-11) (aged 44)
Venice
SpouseLandgravine Christine of Hesse-Wanfried
IssueCharles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Names
German: Dominik Marquard
HouseHouse of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
FatherMaximilian Karl, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
MotherCountess Maria Polyxena Khuen von Lichtenberg und Belasi

Dominic Marquard, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (7 November 1690 – 11 March 1735) was the second Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort.

Early life and ancestry

He was the sixth son and ninth child of Maximilian Karl Albert, last Count and first Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1656 - 1718), and his wife Countess Maria Polyxena Khuen von Lichtenberg und Belasi (1658 - 1712). He was named after Marquard Sebastian von Schenk von Stauffenberg, (1644–1693) Prince-Bishop of Bamberg, who was his godfather.

Personal life

On 28 February 1712, he married Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Wanfried (1688 - 1728) a daughter of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried by his second wife, Countess Juliane Alexandrine of Leiningen-Dagsburg. Since his older brother had already died, unmarried and without children, at that time he was already Hereditary Prince. Dominic Marquard and Christine had thirteen children, nine of whom survived to adulthood:

Reign

In 1718, he succeeded his father, and acquired various possessions that should influence the history of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim; in 1720 the Lordship of Haid and its castle in Bohemia, in 1721 the small market town Kleinheubach from the possession of the Counts of Erbach and 1730 the Lordship of Rosenberg in Baden, which derived the Catholic line of the family.

Death

Prince Dominic died in 1735, in Venice, where he had gone to attend the Carnival in disguise, and was buried there, but his heart was moved to the church of Wertheim.[1] His wife Christina died on 17 July 1728, at childbirth, and was buried in the Abbey Engelberg, Grossheubach.[2]

Sources

  • Martina Heine: Dominik Marquard heiratete Hessin. In: Wertheimer Zeitung vom 28. Februar 2012

References

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