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In the Usingen branch, Karl , widowed of a duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, married morganatically around Maria Magdalena Gross , daughter of an apothecary and of the daughter of the mayor of Wiesbaden. Now permanently closed, Prostiyutes building once used to be a hospital. Unequal and morganatic marriages 1.

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Telephones of Girls Ashton Asnton Makerfield. Previous Next. The prince's mother died in and her son came of age in Jan He brought her back and married her on 30 Sept. She bore him 3 Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein and 2 daughters, and was made an imperial Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein under the name of Nienburgon Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein July The agnates refused to accept the marriage Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein dynastically valid and Emanuel Lebrecht sued them before the Reichshofrat for libel in ; in the end, by treaty of 28 Junthe princes of Anhalt-Bernburg, Harzgerode, Zerbst and Dessau recognized the male issue of that marriage as lawful heirs and all descendants as princes and princesses of Anhalt with all appertaining rights, without however creating any precedent against the prescriptions of the house laws of Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein and Emanuel Lebrecht was required to recognize and acceptthem as his father and grandfather had done before him.

Imperial confirmation came on 12 March On 3 Aug Emanuel Lebrecht assigned to his wife the castle, city and bailiwick Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Nienburg as dowage and made her tutrix and regent in case of minority of his successor this again was approved by the agnates ; after hsi death in she in fact was regent for her son until he came of age inand thereafter she lived in Nienburg until her death Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein 12 March Emanuel Lebrecht's younger son, August Ludwighad reached an agreement with his older brother inaccepting for himself Warmsdorf instead of joint sovereignty.

He decided to marry Agnes von Wuthenau d. He married her on Jan 13, They had only daughters who died unmarried. His children by his second marriage succeeded him. He later married his second wife's sister Anna Friederika d. Margrave Ernst zu Baden, founder of the Durlach line, was widowed in of a princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach, of whom he had two sons.

Of his brothers two were clerics and three were lay one of whom, Bernhard, founded the Baden-Baden line. In he drafted a division of his lands between his three sons, giving the larger share with the margraviate to his eldest son, Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the rest in two and giving his second son Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein choice between the two part; the third son having eventual rights to the shares of his eldest brothers in case of extinction of their male issue.

In Ernst's eldest son died. Ernst obtained imperial confirmation of his testament in In he ceded the government of his lands to his two sons jointly; but his second son died ina few days before Ernst. Karl was thus the only surviving son and succeeded his father in Durlach, without any opposition from the agnates in particular the two sons of Bernhard of Baden-Baden, who were under guardianship. From Karl descends the whole Durlach line including the grand-ducal house.

Ursula's tomb does not seem to show her family arms, but she is called in the epitaph "ill[ustra] Dna Ursula marchionissa in Baden et Hochb. Dni Ernesti March. Roller in Schau ins Land Jahrlauf, s. Ernst had remarried a third time to Anna Bombast von Hohenheim, of Wurttemberg nobility, but without issue. In the senior Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein line, the ruling margrave Philibert had assigned to his younger brother Christoph the meager lordship of Rodemachern.

Christoph nevertheless married a royal princess, Caecilie, daughter of Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein king of Sweden. They led a costly and peripatetic life, and their son Eduard Fortunatus von Baden-Baden was born in London. He was raised a Catholic. In he succeeded his first cousin Philipp II as margrave. He met in Brussels noblewoman named Maria von Eickendaughter of the marshall of the court of the prince of Orange and governor of Breda, and married her Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein March 13, They went to Italy where she gave birth to a daughter, but he only made his marriage official upon his return to Baden on July 30, A few months later she gave birth to a son Wilhelm.

In he declared that she should be treated as a princely widow after his death and his sons by her should succeed him. Eduard's finances fell into such disarray that the Emperor put him in Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein and entrusted his estates to the dukes of Bavaria and Lorraine.

The trustees were going to sell the margraviate to the Fuggers when Ernst-Friedrich, margrave of Baden-Durlach, asked to exercise his right of preemption and took possession of the margraviate in When Eduard Fortunatus died in allegedly falling down stairs while chasing a young girlthe margrave of Baden-Durlach questioned the status of the issue of that marriage, claiming that the marriage was void, and gave the margraviate of Baden-Baden to his brother Georg Friedrich.

He also obtained a favorable imperial decree on 26 Feb. At the Reichstag of a dispute arose as to the exercise of the Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein vote. When the Thirty Years war broke out, the branch of Baden-Durlach, which was protestant, took sides against the Emperor, and Georg Friedrich, who had ceded his estates to his son Friedrich, was beaten by Tilly at Wimpfen on May 6, Not surprisingly, on 4 Sep. By a transaction at Ettlingen inthe 28 years' worth of income was replaced by a sum ofGulden, with the bailliwicks of Stein and Remchingen as pledge.

Wilhelm, son of Eduard Fortunatus, appeared in person in the Reichstag of and and no one questioned his presence. The peace of Westphalia saw the matter raised again, with the margrave of Baden-Durlach demanding restitution, but in the end Wilhelm retained the margraviate art. British law knew nothing of equality requirements and mismarriages. George III had three brothers who survived to adulthood, the dukes of York who died unmarried inGloucester and Cumberland. In Sept.

On Oct. Gloucester revealed his own marriage to the king on Sept. The king was furious at both of his brothers and pushed through Parliament the Royal Marriages Act of An inquiry into the legality of Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein marriage Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein that it was legal.

The duke of Cumberland died without issue inhaving been reconciled with his brother in The duke of Gloucester, who also returned to court inhad two surviving children: Prince William of Gloucester who succeeded his father as duke of Gloucester, and Princess Sophia Mathildawho never married a third child died in infancy.

There is no doubt that they were treated as full members of the British dynasty; their status in Hanover was very much in question. See a discussion of the duke of Gloucester in the context of British styles and titles. See also examples of morganatic marriages in the house of Wittelsbach.

He had become Catholic inbut married in a Protestant princess who was his second cousin, without Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein papal dispensation for the degree of consanguinity. Meanwhile he asked the Pope for an annullment of his first marriage so that he could remarry; the Pope was well disposed toward a prince who might have a Catholic heir, and the matter was promptly referred to the bishop of Metz, who annulled the marriage on Apr 2,requiring the duke to pay French livres to the churches in his domains as penance for having lived so many years in an invalid marriage.

On May 13, he announced his second Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein. She had bought the county of Forbach, in Lorraine, in and taken the title of countess of Forbach, which was confirmed by letters patent of Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein XVI in July for her and her children. It was Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein that a secret Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein took place in but it is not documented.

The marriage was not revealed publicly until after the death of Christian IV, although he recognized the issue in september The male posterity died out in They had born the arms fusilly per pend argent and azure a lion gules the countess of Forbach had used or a fess gules. See Annuaire de la Noblesse de France, p. When the Elector Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria died inthe court of Vienna had been planning to seize a large share of Bavaria for itself, under a variety of complex and dubious legal arguments.

It Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein already negotiating with the heir presumptive, the Elector Palatine Carl Theodor of the Sulzbach line Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, and when the Bavarian elector died an agreement was rushed and signed on 3 Janessentially giving away most of the Bavarian inheritance to Austria. The war of the Bavarian Succession, such as it was, ended with the peace of Teschen of May 13, Its article 8 states:.

Wilhelm took on Feb. From him descends Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein "ducal line" of Bavaria. Moser, ADB Schoell The house of Saxe-Meiningen Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein from Bernhard, the third son of Ernst of Saxony, duke of Gothawhose seven children divided his inheritance in In his testament ofhe ordered that his lands never be divided, but that they should be owned jointly by all sons until such time as each is able to acquire a principality commensurate with his rank.

He explains at length his opposition to primogeniture, claiming that it was not only contrary to the house laws, testaments, and customs of the house of Saxony, but also that it only brought bad luck to those who introduced it in their families.

At his death, his three sons Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein succeeded him: Ernst Ludwig, Friedrich Wilhelm and Anton Ulrichunder the rule of the eldest one.

Ernst Ludwig disobeyed his father's will and, in his own will of which received imperial confirmation in instituted primogeniture in Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein own line and required "alter Grafenstand" for marriages see the text below ; but that line became extinct with his son Karl Friedrich inat which point the two other brothers ruled jointly. When Friedrich Wilhelm died without issue inAnton Ulrich was left as sole ruler of the Meiningen lands.

Anton Ulrich 's marriage was a milestone in the history of German house laws. He decided to have his wife and children titled princes by the emperor in order to make them of equal rank and thus apt Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein succeed him.

At that time the dukes of Saxony and Anhalt made a convention against morganatic marriages, and Anton Ulrich was informed by his brother Ernst Ludwig that it would apply to his marriage 1 Aug Anton Ulrich wrote himself a protest, declaring the convention disgraceful, un-christian, erroneous, without force, incoherent, and unlawful; and Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein went to Vienna in to ask the emperor not to confirm the convention.

In spite of the furious protests of his eldest brother, as well as those of all Saxon agnates and even other German princes, on 21 Feb Emperor Charles VI raised her to the rank of Imperial countess with the style of Hochgeborenand declared that their children were princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses of Saxony and fully entitled to the same claims and rights as those of any equal Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein.

After the death of Charles VI in the matter was brought up during the election of the new emperor in Some princes wanted to define Vierahnenadel as equality requirements for members of the upper nobility Abtn2but clearly there was not enough Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein on such a high standard. Ultimately a clause was inserted in the Electoral Capitulation of the next emperor, Charles VII, according to which the emperor promised never to raise to the status of equal children born of a "notoriously unequal" marriage.

As for Anton Ulrich's marriage, a ruling of the Reichshofrat of 25 Sep. Anton Ulrich appealed to the Reichstag which unanimously upheld the ruling on 24 Julconfirmed by imperial court decree of 4 Sep. Anton Ulrich did not quite give in. Widowed, he remarried, equally this time to Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal, by whom he had four sons andf five daughters.

Yet, shortly before his death inhe wrote a will 27 Jan declaring his two eldest sons to be dukes of Saxony, leaving his wife as regent until such time as the emperor resolved the matter in their favor. His widow dutifully appealed and the Reichshofrat confirmed on 25 Feb that the two sons were ineligible to succeed. In any event all his children by Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein first marriage died without issue.

Anton Ulrich's two surviving sons by his second and equal marriage, Karl and Georg, succeeded Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein under the regency of their mother, until Karl's death in which left Georg sole ruler, and sole male of the Saxe-Meiningen line. As early as an agreement between the cousins Eberhard and Eberhard Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein that if the younger should be widowed Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein remarried, he should do so with "einer die sein Gnos ist", but that if he should marry with "einer mindern und niedern Person" any children from that marriage would have no claim to his lands ot the lordship of Wurttemberg, but if he should marry Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the consent of the elder, the wife would receive Gulden as his first wife had.

Sich ohne der Andern This is probably the most Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein case, involving a morganatic marriage, a divorce, bastards by an adultery later legitimated, a second morganatic marriage with the sister of the adulteress, adoption of the adulteress's children, and intermarriage between children and stepchildren. They had four children of which two survived to adulthood: Leopoldine Eberhardine and Georg Leopold They became Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein in The duke and Henriette had 5 illegitimate children, of which two daughters: Eberhardine b.

Henriette died on 9 Nov Inthe duke adopted Henriette's children by her first marriage and gave them the county of Coligny in Bresse which he held from his mother Anne de Coligny. To make things even worse, the duke's children by his first marriage each married one of Henriette's children by her first marriage in Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein if the duke hadn't broken enough rules, he then sought to have all of his children declared legitimate and apt to succeed him.

He had signed in in Wildbade a document, admitting to his kinsman Eberhard Ludwig that he had never married equally and that none of his children had any succession rights.

To undo this, he decided to renew the French naturalization granted to his father inwhich he obtained in In he asked the emperor for the title of princess for his second wife and named his son by his first marriage Georg Leopold hereditary prince, and the latter's wife his mistress's daughter by her first marriage and his own adoptive daughter Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein well hereditary princess.

This unilateral move did not please the Emperor, who declared these actions null and void 8 Nov as "an open attack on the power and privileges of the emperor and the Holy Roman Empire".

The dispute dragged on for years and the duke's descendants did not give in until The marriage was apparently treated as morganatic, and for a number of years neither she nor their Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein daughters were given any princely rank and titles. But the absence of male issue of that marriage may have decided the two other brothers to relent and grant Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the title of duchess and the daughters that of princesses.

Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein eldest brother Carl ,widowed inand with no surviving children, himself remarried unequally on Feb 2, Franciske Therese von Bernedin [Bernardin], previously married to a von Leutrum.

The duke then declared that she should be recognized as duchess, and was accepted as so by the agnates; and after the duke's death she received a duchess's dowage.

They had no issue. Starting Prostitutes Burg Unter-FalkensteinHans Otto d. He received assistance in this from Hesse-Darmstadt with whom he made an agreement in The Isenburg cousins and the counts of the Wetterau obtained a rescript from emperor Rudolf II against him 9 Nov forbidding him from using the title of count.

Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein for the suit in the Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, count Wolfgang Ernst Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein that the existence of the marriage needed to be proven first, and the Reichskammergericht agreed in to hear Hans Otto's case if he were able to prove his legitimate birth. In any event the consistorium ruled on 15 Dec that Hans Otto was legitimate. The Thirty Years War suspended the proceedings, during which time Hans Otto died, Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein three daughters by a noble wife Margaretha Dorothea von Storndorf.

The proceedings resumed Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the Kammergericht in A preliminary ruling on 4 Feb. The order was stayed at the request of the Isneburg-Birstein counts, but the income was ordered to be Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein to the daughters. The case continued to drag until the last daughter died in She was created on 16 Jan Herzogin von Bernstadt, with the same title Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein rank for her eventual children, although there was no issue of the marriage.

Ludwig Heinrich Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, younger son of the count of Lippe-Biesterfelda captain in the imperial army, married on 30 Mar Elisabeth Kellnerdaughter of a master-butcher. She bore him a son less than three months later.

By a treaty with all the agnates on May 11, he renounced any claims and dignities for his issue, in exchange for a pension of Thaler paid by the Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein of the Biesterfeld line. Their issue, Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein extant, bears that title.

In the latter line, count Friedrich Ernst married on Sep 22, and Philippine Elisabeth von Friesenhausena lady in waiting of his mother, in the lifetime of his father. The landgrave of Cassel, overlord Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the county of Schaumburg, claimed that the marriage was not dynastic, having been contracted with a person of inferior rank without parental consent by an officer of the Hessian army without consent of the landgrave.

The count had his wife raised to the rank of countess by the Emperor in and obtained an imperial mandate Jul 12, declaring that the issue of the count would not be Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein from enjoying their inheritance because of the alteration in the text of the letter of investiture. His son Wolfgang married in Johanna von Molleof simply nobility.

His father reportedly excluded him from the succession for that reason, and required him to make a solemn renunciation in documents seen by Boehmer inand which he describes in his Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein. Moser expresses some skepticism since the whole Wallerstein branch is descended from that marriage. He was warned of the consequences and refused to break the marriage; consequently his wife and children were declared by the agnates?

Widowed inhe remarried on 30 Apr Alexandrina Hutten-Czapska, divorced from the secretary of the Russian embassy Alexander v. Kolemine; but soon decided to divorce.

A divorce decree was granted on July 9, but she appealed. The point of law was that the law of Hesse-Darmstadt gave the grand-duke jurisdiction over the dissolution of his own marriage Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts The case is, however, not relevant to the subject of mismarriages.

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The traditional etymology of the term "morganatic" is the word Morgengabe murgencap in the old textswhich designates the dowry given by the husband to the wife on the first morning Morgen of their marriage, and which is her full property.

The idea is that, in a morganatic marriage, the children's claims are limited to their mother's Morgengabe. The text of the law mentions that the term is Milanese. The Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Odofredo, in his commentaries on the civil code, notes that the Italian word for Morgengabe is murganale. However, Lehmann in his edition of Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Libri Feudorum, says that the morganatic marriage Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein not mentioned in the book of customs of Milan.

Feudal law, particularly as codified by Italian jurists in the Libri Feudorumwas one of the sources of German law along with the whole corpus of Roman law, from the late medieval period. Some writers Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein insist that the concept of morganatic marriage is purely Lombard and Italian, and that in its application in German law it became identical with unequal marriage, but that seems very doubtful.

Morgengabskinder are mentioned in the laws of Freiburg Stadtrecht Freiburg3. Traktat, 4. They are children of a first marriage who are in effect adopted by their step-parent upon second marriage of their parent. A morganatic marriage can only be contracted when the law permits it, because it is essentially a deviation or exception from the normal laws governing marriages. The upper nobility's ability to contract such marriages i. A general purpose was to maintain the "lustre" of a noble family, and specifically to limit the number of claims that could be made on the patrimony by children of various spouses.

The idea was that membership in a certain state or rank carried with it the obligation to maintain a commensurate lifestyle; if the patrimony were divided equally among all children, none would be able to hold their station in an appropriate manner. Thus some of the children were of lower rank, and had fewer or no Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein on the patrimony, at least as long as the older children were still alive.

Another purpose relates the morganatic marriage to the Gewissensehe mariage de Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, mariage secret which is a secret marriage between a man and his mistress, meant to assuage his conscience without causing scandal. Morganatic marriages were not Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, but they could be a way to allow a man to sanctify in the eyes of the Church a relation which he already has or will have, without prejudice to children of an earlier marriage or to relatives in general.

To illustrate this motive, here is a passage from a Hessian chronicle describing the promise made by landgrave Otto of Hesse d.

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Aber er enwulde Keynss Fursten, Herrn, noch Graven tochter nemen, uff das durch die tzweyerley Kyndere das lant nicht verdeylt worde, sundern he wulte eyne frumme jung frauwen uss siner ritterschafft zu der ee nemen, unde ob he mit der kindere gewonne, die wulte he mit gelde unde leenschafft unde andern gutern wole versorgen, so das der Furstenthum bynander bliben sulte.

Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein schribet Johan Ritessel in siner Chroniken. Several morganatic marriages fit the pattern of an aged widower with enough children to ensure the succession: Baden-Durlach inHesse-Rheinfeld inPrussia in For some authors Dalchowthe purpose of a morganatic Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein is to mitigate the legal consequences of a mismarriage by specifying in advance the state, rank, and dowry Morgengabe of the spouse and issue.

I find this difficult to believe, since it would imply that the individual had the autonomous power to prevent the application of laws and customs on mismarriages. Although devoting a substantial section to this institution, it was the drafters' intention to restrict its use as much as possible. Specific requirements are set forth, the direct approval of the sovereign Landesherr was required such approval had been required for morganatic marriages since a constitution on betrothals and marriages of Dec 15,art.

LVIII, p. Articles above were abolished by a law of Feb. Einziger Artikel. Gegeben Berlin, den 22 Februar Wilhelm Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein. Frhr v. Leberecht's stepmother fought in vain to have this elevation reversed.

The Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein von Weede bore her husband three sons who died without issue, although the two surviving sons obtained the bailiwick of Zeiz at the death of their father and three daughters, one of whom married landgrave Wilhelm von Hesse-Philippsthal, the other prince Christian von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

On Nov 24, he married Luise Caroline Freiin Geyer von Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkensteinmember of an old family of the imperial nobility, immatriculated as imperial knights. The same day he published a proclamation Versicherungsurkunde on the rank, title, Morgengabe, pension and dowage of his future spouse, on the title Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein arms of the daughters to be born of that marriage; on the titles, arms and the upkeep of the sons to be born and on their succession rights in case of extinction of the male line of his house.

The name of his spouse as well as daughters was appointed to be Freiin von Hochberg. Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the subject of the sons he reserved further decision which took place by a disposition of Feb 20, The document was signed by the two eldest sons of the margrave; the third son, absent at the Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, later signified his agreement.

The disposition of explained further that the marriage should "in no way be seen as morganatic, but rather as a true equal marriage". The sons were to hold the rank of counts under the name of Grafen von Hochberg, bear the arms of Baden-Hochberg; they were to be called to succeed in all his princely estates by primogeniture after the complete extinction of his male issue from the first marriage.

This settlement of the succession raised immediate difficulties. The reason is that, in the final act of the Congress of Vienna ofboth Bavaria and Austria were Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein reversionary rights to Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein territories given to Baden: namely part of the Upper Palatinate and the Breisgau.

The reversion to Austria was unspecified, but that to Bavaria was to Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein place upon the extinction of the line issued from the reigning Grand-Duke which, at the time, was expected to become extinct with his death.

Unequal and Morganatic Marriages in German Law

Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the end, however, the disputes were settled by treaties signed in Frankfurt on July 10,whereby Baden ceded part of Wertheim a territory enclaved within Bavaria to Bavaria, and the succession as settled in was recognized by Bavaria and Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein. The arrangement was included in the Territorialrecess of Frankfurt of July 20,which settled within-Germany boundaries left unsettled in SinceBaden and the Palatinate held the county of Sponheim in condominium, with reciprocal succession rights in case of extinction of either house.

InBavaria asserted its claims to those lands in case of extinction of the male issue from the first marriage of the margrave Carl Friedrich, saying that it recognized the succession Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the issue of the second marriage to the grand-duchy of Baden, but not to the lands serving as surrogates for Sponheim. Abtn2 disputes that this was a morganatic marriage, on the grounds that Otto had renounced his claim to the principality and settled for an annual income of Gulden before ever meeting Metta von Campe he cites H.

He also notes that Otto II married into the high nobility, as did every one of his children who did marry. Wilhelm left in Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein sons, who did not wish to split the patrimony and agreed not to do so in a family compact of They also decided that only one of them should marry, and the lot fell to the next-but-youngest of them, duke Georg.

The brothers succeeded each other in ruling Celle: Ernst d. In the meantime, when the senior line of the house of Welf died out inthe principality of Calenberg which should have been united to Celle under the terms of the pact of was given to Georg. Georg died in before his turn to rule Celle came up. He left four Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Christian Ludwig d. He also left them an unusual will.

He instituted the rule that Celle which his sons were due to inherit from their unmarried uncle Friedrich and his own principality of Calenberg should never be united, as long as there were two males left in his issue. Moreover, he laid down the rule that the elder male should have the right to choose which of the two principalities he wished to rule. The other two youngest brothers took up Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein in Celle and Hanover respectively.

At the time, the other brothers were unmarried, and Georg Wilhelm promised Ernst August that he Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein never marry, so that all family lands could be reunited at the next generation. This promise, made on April 11, the text is reproduced in the Memoirs of Electress Sophia was merely Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the pact between the brothers at the previous generation.

When the eldest Christian Ludwig died ina dispute arose when Georg Wilhelm decided to exercise his right to choose Celle, and the 3d brother Johann Friedrich. Schauen was ceded to the prince of Waldeck in Inupon the extinction of the house of Saxe-Lauenburg, Georg Wilhelm took possession of Lauenburg as president of the circle of Lower Saxony under the pretext of forestalling threats to the public peace from the various contestants, and later in his own name on the basis of a family pact of the claims of electoral Saxony were bought off in When the 3d brother Johann Friedrich died in without male issue, his estates passed to the youngest brother Ernst August.

Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein August, inobtained the consent of his older brother Georg II Wilhelm to the introduction of indivisibility and primogeniture by testament ofapproved by the Emperor on July 1, thus putting an end to the provisions of Georg's will of She ultimately married in her first cousin Georg Ludwig of Hanover, son of Ernst August, and accordingly took the title of duchess of Brunswick in her own right. Their male-line descent includes the kings of Great Britain to and the royal house of Hanover male and female-line descendants include almost every royal family in Europe.

Sonderbahre Geschicht dieser Zeit. Additional details in Allemagne Dynastique A curious item in the Gazette d'Amsterdam, n. Landgrave Ernst von Hesse-Rheinfels had two sons by a countess Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Solms and Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein number of grandchildren when he was widowed in The marriage contract describes her has born of the patriciate of Straubingen in Bavaria, and mentions that her father had distinguished himself at the battle of Cochem 25 Aug She took the name of Madame Ernestine see the similar name taken by another morganatic wife.

Her entire household consisted of a chamber-maid, a wash-maid and a valet. Her dowage, instead of a standard 3, Thalers, consisted of an annual rent of Thaler; any children born of the marriage of which there were none were to be neither princes nor counts, but counted as part of the nobility of Hesse. On Feb. Later that year, a contract 24 Nov was concluded between Christian Carl and his elder brother Joachim Friedrich. The text explained Christian Carl's intention to conserve the house of Norburg and avoid the division of its estates among many children.

It stipulated a 40, Thaler lump-sum payment to Christian Carl's widow and suspension of the rights of the issue of that marriage to any of the family fiefs until extinction of the male line of Joachim Friedrich. The king of Denmark approved the contract on 5 Dec and granted to the issue of that marriage the name of von Carlstein and a specific coat of arms. The tutors of young Carlstein, appointed by the king of Denmark, made claims but were rebuffed in and Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein imperial courts.

On 25 Jan Friedrich Joachim died, leaving only daughters and a pregnant wife who gave birth to a daughter. But, on Dec. The duke of Holstein-Rethwisch Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, Carlstein counter-sued, and the matter dragged on for years in part because imperial courts refused to countenance young Carlstein's self-style as "duke of Holstein" until past the death Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein male heirs of the duke of Holstein-Rethwisch inwhereupon Carlstein inherited Rethwisch as well.

Finally, On Sep. Moser says that such suspensive clauses in morganatic marriage contracts were not in common use in Germany until then, and sees a number of reasons why, in this particular case, Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Carl von Carlstein was able to reclaim his status, essentially because the contingency extinction of the senior line of Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein occurred soon after the pact, so that Carlstein's failure to use his father's titles and rank could not be grounds for prescription since he was a minor and he had not yet gone into a marriage that Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein have cast doubt on his ducal rank.

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In other words, had the status of the morganatic issue remained inferior for a much longer period, it would have been difficult to have the clause of the marriage contract applied after the extinction of the senior, princely Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein.

But Moser is well-disposed toward such clauses and argues that an imperial law should be passed to provide a firm ground for them. He also says Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, at a minimum, anyone considering such clauses should make sure he secures the consent of the Emperor and of the agnates. They had three children who died in infancy.

See E. In the Usingen branch, Karlwidowed of a duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, married morganatically around Maria Magdalena Grossdaughter of an apothecary and of the daughter of the mayor of Wiesbaden.

Friedrich had met in Clara Tott [sometimes written Tettin, Dettin or Tettingen] in Augsburg, the daughter of a Ratsknechtand had brought her to live with him in Heidelberg. She was the mother of his two children Friedrich and Ludwig b.

At Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein death in he had left four cities and three castles to his surviving son Ludwig of Bavaria, but the vassals refused to recognize Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein as overlord, and he had to make do with the lordship of Scharfeneck.

He had first married in Luise, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitzby whom he had four sons and three daughters. The full text of the edict signed on the same day by the king is here German original and English translation. Was the marriage unequal? Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein question is not an easy one. The first point is to determine what the rules were in the Prussian royal family; the other is to determine what rank the spouse had before marriage. The Hohenzollerns margraves of Brandenburg never had Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein single written house law.

Moreover, the collection of pacts and testaments which formed the house laws of the family contain no specific clause concerning equality.

The practice of the house was clearly to apply high standards to marriages. In the descent of Elector Johann Friedrich d.

The margraves of Bayreuth ext. As to the spouse, Schulzeconsiders that the Harrach family fell below Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein threshold of certainty. Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein reason is that the Harrach, an Austrian family with possessions in Bohemia, were created imperial counts inbut were not parts of the Reichstag until their reception on the bench of Swabia on July 6,and this without owning an immediate territory of sufficient importance to satisfy the legal requirements.

They were "personalists," sitting at the bench in their personal capacity rather than by virtue of a territory. Thus Schulze considers Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein marriages of the Prussian royal family with personalist counted "keineswegs unzweifelhaft" in no way beyond doubt as equal.

He does not state, however, that Auguste von Harrach was clearly unequal either: only that the case was doubtful. Furthermore, Auguste belonged to a junior branch of the family, descended from Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Friedrich d. It was the elder branch, descended from Karl Leonhard d.

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It was the head of the elder branch who received in Austria in six years after the marriage the qualification of Erlaucht pursuant to the German Confederation's decision of conferring such treatment to mediatized comital families. Auguste was 5th cousins once removed with the head of the elder branch. On the details of the marriage, see Treitschke: Deutsche Geschichte in Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein The literature on unequal marriages Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein vast Abt mentions references ; what follows is a selection, of which I have myself seen only a part those books I have seen are marked with an asterisk.

Doctoral dissertations on the subject of unequal marriages are particularly abundant in two periods: the late 17th-early 18th c. The revival in interest in the subject in the second period no doubt stems from the series of cases Lippe, Nassau which made the subject both topical and of practical import.

The marriage was not revealed publicly until after the death of Christian IV, although he recognized the issue in september

Legal briefs Rechtsgutachten were produced Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein published throughout the 18th and 19th c.

I have grouped together briefs and journal articles that relate to specific cases. The "heavyweights" in the late 19th c. Hauptman's theses were strongly disputed by Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein and Abt among others. Still under construction. Unequal and morganatic marriages 1. Historical Development 2. Examples of unequal marriages and mismarriages table of contents 4. Morganatic marriages 4. They represent an important aspect of dynastic and succession laws in German dynasties.

The approach I take is legal-historical : I want to understand these concepts as legal concepts in their historical context. Rules on marriages in European royalty From the late 18th c. The rules varied in their requirements and in their effects, making contravening marriages either null or else imperfect. They have in common that, in almost all cases, they were written rules edicted by a sovereign.

Concerning these marriage rules, Germany's history is unique for several reasons. Estates and nobility in Germany To understand what "unequal marriage" might mean, some notions about class distinctions in Germany are necessary. This division later evolved as in other European societies with the emergence of urban residents burghers and the transformation of serfs through emancipation into plain peasantry in the 12th and 13th c.

Where Germany Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein from the rest of Europe was in the further distinction between the upper and the lower nobility Hochadel, Niederadel. Whereas in most other European societies, the king stood alone at the apex of the feudal society, distinct from the nobility and the commonalty, in German's fragmented political constitution, sovereignty was shared by dozens of noble families, which together constituted Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein distinct stratum of the nobility.

In German law, this distinction was almost as important as that between nobility and commonalty. State of the Empire Reichsstand The special status of these families manifested itself in the constitution of the Empire as it evolved in the 16th c.

Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein see first a general presentation Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire. To the status of territorial ruler corresponded a seat and vote in one of the colleges of the Reichstagthe Imperial Diet.

In the late 16th c. After the Diet held at Augsburg inthe list of votes remained fixed, notwithstanding further territorial divisions. Furthermore, the right to vote became attached to a land, rather than to a person or family of course, land was inheritable within families. A member of the Diet with seat and vote individual or shared was called a Reichsstand, or state of the Empire. At some point Abtn2 cites various possible dates, from the turn of the 16th c. The reason is that the Emperor, as "fons nobilitatium," had the power to create new princes, counts and barons of the Empire, a power which he began to use more frequently.

The existing princes, counts and barons were obviously loathe to see the value of their title diminished. The members of the Diet complained and, after Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein, it became the rule that such new princes and counts would not of right have a seat at the Diet.

Furthermore, in the Electoral Capitulation included strict rules on the process by which the Emperor could create new states of the Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein. In particular, any new member had to possess an immediate territory of sufficient size, and had to be accepted by his peers Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein or counts.

Those in the third group were titular counts and princes but in no way accepted as part of the Hochadel. Thus it would seem that having seat and vote in the Reichstag would be a clear criterion for belonging to the Hochadel. But there Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein further complications: In principle, the possession of a territory was a pre-condition for admission in the Diet.

However, in the second Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein of the 18th century a number of counts sat on the counts' benches without any such territory. They were called "personalists" Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein they had been admitted on a personal basis ad personamand some jurists did not consider them to be part of the upper nobility e.

Possession of a large immediate territory was a condition for entry, but not a condition for remaining in Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Diet. It happened that territories became subjected to another state of the Empire, thus losing immediate status; yet the owner remained in the Diet.

Examples include XXX. Consequently, whereas, in the 16th century, it was fairly easy to say who was in the upper nobility and who wasn't, it had become more Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein by the turn of the 19th century. Three concepts came into play: immediate status Reichsunmittelbarkeitsovereignty over a territory Landeshoheitseat and vote at the Diet Reichsstandschaft.

The three were "usually" related, in that the sovereign of a territory was a state of the Empire, and a state of the Empire usually had sovereignty over an immediate territory; but there were exceptions both ways.

Various authors emphasized one or a combination of these elements. Imperial knighthood Reichsritterschaft The imperial knights Reichsritter formed the Imperial knighthood Reichsritterschaft or Imperial nobility Reichsadela hereditary class that stood in between upper and lower nobility.

Concentrated in southwest Germany Swabia, Franconia, Rhine valley, Alsacein particular the ancient possessions of the Hohenstaufens, they were never considered part of the upper nobility, but they did have a limited special status, being immediate vassals of the Emperor, thus not part of the local nobility, and winning in the 17th c.

They frequently intermarried with the comital families. By the end of the Empire, there were about families of imperial knights. Lower nobility Niederadel The rest of the nobility consisted, by definition, or people who were neither territorially sovereign nor immediate vassals of Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein Emperor. They were therefore vassals of someone else e. They enjoyed nobiliary privileges under local law, as did nobles elsewhere in Europe, but their legal status within the Empire was nothing like Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein of the upper nobility.

A distinction could also be made depending on how many ancestors of a given person had been nobles themselves. One could examine the person's grandparents 4 ancestorsor great-grandparents 8or great-great-grandparents 16 and require that they all be nobles. Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein degrees of nobility were called VierahnenadelAchtahnenadelSechszehnahnenadel.

Nobility proofs Ahnenprobe of this type became common Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the 15th c. Unequal marriages and morganatic marriages Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein. Yet it is clear from the legal literature that the two were originally quite distinct concepts.

I follow here the definitions given by Zoepfl In particular, it is an unequal marriage in Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein the inequality between the spouses by law deprives the lower-ranking spouses and her children by that marriage of the full legal effects of marriage.

An alternative would be to resurrect the English noun "disparage" in its original sense " Inequality of rank in marriage; an unequal match; disgrace resulting from marriage with one of inferior rank" OED2. All three are sub-species of marriages, but they do not coincide. Notice how the concepts fail to overlap exactly: an unequal marriage may Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein be a mismarriage if the relevant house laws authorize that particular degree of inequality a mismarriage may not be unequal case of a marriage contracted without the consent of head of house a morganatic marriage may not be unambiguously unequal 1.

Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein on the context particularly the historical periodyes or no. There is, of course, a gigantic literature on this question. To Prostitutes Burg Unter-Falkenstein completed. Beseler deutsch. Dieck: die Gewissensehe u.