Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (27 September 1763 – 4 July 1814) was a German nobleman.

He was born at Dürckheim, the fourth child and only son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince of Leiningen

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 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

Leiningen

Leiningen is the name of an old German family whose lands lay principally in Alsace, Lorraine and the Palatinate. The first count of Leiningen about whom anything certain is known was a certain Emich II , whose family became extinct in the male line when Count Frederick, a Minnesinger, died about...

.

Emich Carl was married firstly, on 4 July 1787, to Henriette, youngest daughter of Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf

Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf

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, by his wife Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg

Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg

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. 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

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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, the fourth daughter of Duke Franz Friedrich Anton of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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 by his wife Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf

Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf

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, and a niece of his late wife. She bore him two further children,

• Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich
  Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen
  Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich, Prince of Leiningen was a German nobleman and the elder half-brother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
  
  , born 12 September 1804, who succeeded his father as third prince.
• Anna Feodora Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine
  Princess Feodora of Leiningen
  Princess Feodora of Leiningen was the only daughter of Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld . Feodora and her older brother Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen were maternal half-siblings of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom...
  
  , born 7 December 1807, who married Ernst, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
  Ernst, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
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  , and had issue.

Emich Carl died at Amorbach

Amorbach

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 on the 4 July 1814 and was succeeded by his second (surviving) son.

His widow was married a second time, to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent

Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

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, fourth son of King George III of the United Kingdom

George III of the United Kingdom

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. By him she had a second daughter, Princess Victoria of Kent

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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, who would later become Queen of the United Kingdom.

Sources

• http://genealogy.euweb.cz/leiningen/leiningen6.html#EC