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LEININGEN , the name of an old See also:

German See also:family, whose lands See also:lay principally in See also:Alsace and See also:Lorraine. The first See also:count of Leiningen about whom anything certain is known was a certain Emicho (d. 1117), whose family became See also:extinct in the male See also:line when Count See also:Frederick, a Minnesinger, died about 1220. Frederick's See also:sister, Liutgarde, married See also:Simon, count of See also:Saar- brticken, and Frederick, one of their sons, inheriting the lands of the See also:counts of Leiningen, took their arms and their name. Having increased its possessions the Leiningen family was divided about 1317 into two branches; the See also:elder of these, whose See also:head was a See also:landgrave, died out in 1467. On this event its lands See also:fell to a See also:female, the last landgrave's sister See also:Margaret, wife of Reinhard, See also:lord of Westerburg, and their descendants were known as the family of Leiningen-Westerburg. Later this family was divided into two branches, those of Alt-Leiningen-Westerburg and Neu-Leiningen-Westerburg, both of which are represented to-See also:day. Meanwhile the younger See also:branch of the Leiningens, known as the family of Leiningen-Dagsburg, was flourishing, and in 156o this was divided into the lines of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg, founded by Count See also:John See also:Philip (d. 1562), and Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim or Falkenburg, founded by Count Emicho (d. 1593). In 1779 the head of the former line was raised to the See also:rank of a See also:prince of the See also:Empire. In 18or this family was deprived of its lands on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Rhine by See also:France, but in 1803 it received ample See also:compensation for these losses.

A few years later its possessions were mediatized, and they are now included mainly in See also:

Baden, but partly in See also:Bavaria and in See also:Hesse. A former head of this family, Prince Emich See also:Charles, married Maria Louisa See also:Victoria, princess of See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg; after his See also:death in 1814 the princess married See also:George III.'s son, the See also:duke of See also:Kent, by whom she became the See also:mother of See also:Queen Victoria. In 1910 the head of the family was Prince Emich (b. 1866). The family of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim was divided into three branches, the two See also:senior of which became extinct during the 18th See also:century. At See also:present it is represented by the counts of Leiningen-Guntersblum and Leiningen-Heidesheim, called also Leiningen-Billigheim and Leiningen-Neidenau. See Brinckmeier, Genealogische Geschichte See also:des Hauses Leiningen (See also:Brunswick, 1890—1891).

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