House of Oettingen-Spielberg

1744 map showing Oettingen (coloured) with Oettingen-Spielberg in the north (pink)

Arms of the House of Oettingen

Oettingen-Spielberg is a noble family and former principality in modern-day eastern Baden-Württemberg and western Bavaria, Germany. Oettingen-Spielberg was a partition of Oettingen-Wallerstein in 1602. It was raised to a Principality in 1734, mediatised to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, and divided with the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810. The other still existing branch of the Oettingen family is the House of Oettingen-Wallerstein.

Counts of Oettingen-Spielberg (1602–1734)^[1][]

Count Wilhelm III of Oettingen (1570–1600)
- Marcus Wilhelm, Count 1602–1614 (1590–1614)
- Johann Albrecht, Count 1614–1632 (1591–1632)
  - Johann Franz, Count 1632–1665 (1631–1665)
    - Johann Sebastian, Count 1665–1675 (1655–1675)
    - Johann Wilhelm, Count 1675–1685 (1655–1685)
    - Franz Albrecht I, Count 1685–1734 (1663–1737), created Reichsfürst zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg 1734

Princes of Oettingen-Spielberg (sovereign 1734 – mediatization in 1806)[]

Franz Albrecht I, 1st Prince 1734–1737 (1663–1737)
- Johann Aloys I, 2nd Prince 1737–1780 (1707–1780)
- Prince Anton Ernst (1712–1768)
  - Johann Aloys II, 3rd Prince 1780–1797 (1758–1797)
    - Johann Aloys III Anton, 4th Prince 1797–1855 (1788–1855)
      - Otto I Karl, 5th Prince 1855–1882 (1815–1882)
        Franz Albrecht II, 6th Prince 1882–1916 (1847–1916)
        
        Emil, 7th Prince 1916–1919 (1850–1919)
        Otto II Joseph, 8th Prince 1919–1952 (1879–1952)
        Aloys Philipp, 9th Prince 1952–1975 (1920–1975)
        Albrecht Ernst, 10th Prince 1975–present (born 1951)
        Franz Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (born 1982)
        Prince Louis-Albrecht of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (born 2019)

To this day owned by the Prince of Oettingen-Spielberg are:

Other Members[]

Wolfgang I of Oettingen, Count of Oettingen-Oettingen (1455–1522)
Maria Dorothea Sophia of Oettingen-Oettingen (1639–1698), second wife of Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg
Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671–1747), wife of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was the maternal grandmother of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, Tsar Peter II of Russia, Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia and Queen Juliane Marie of Denmark and Norway.
Maria Anna of Oettingen-Spielberg (1693–1729), wife of Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein
Princess Gabriele of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (b. 1953), daughter of the 9th Prince
Princess Nora of Oettingen-Spielberg (b. 1990), daughter of Albrecht Ernst, Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg. Married 2017, Lord Max Percy, youngest son of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland
Cleopatra, Hereditary Princess of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (b. 1987), wife of Franz Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg

References[]

^ Marek, Miroslav. "oett/oett3.html". genealogy.euweb.cz.^{[self-published source]}^{[better source needed]}

External links[]

Website of the Prince of Oettingen-Spielberg
List of Counts of Oettingen
Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of Oettingen". Genealogy EU.
(in German) Counts of Oettingen in the ADB^{[permanent dead link]}
(in German) genealogie-mittelalter.de

[1] Marek, Miroslav. "oett/oett3.html". genealogy.euweb.cz.^{[self-published source]}^{[better source needed]}

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