Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen

Who was Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen?

Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen was a German nobleman.

He was born at Dürckheim, the fourth child and only son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg by his wife Countess Christiane Wilhelmine Luise of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim. On 3 July 1779 his father was made a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, and Emich Carl became Hereditary Prince of Leiningen. On 9 January 1807 he succeeded his father as second prince of Leiningen.

Emich Carl was married firstly, on 4 July 1787, to Henriette, youngest daughter of Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, by his wife Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg. They had one son together,

⁕Friedrich Karl Heinrich Ludwig, born 1 March 1793 and died 22 February 1800.

Henriette died on 3 September 1801, and Emich married a second time, on 21 December 1803, to Marie Luise Viktoria, the fourth daughter of Duke Franz Friedrich Anton of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by his wife Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, and a niece of his late wife. She bore him two further children,

⁕Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich, born 12 September 1804, who succeeded his father as third prince.

⁕Anna Feodora Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine, born 7 December 1807, who married Ernst, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and had issue.