Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

Charles Thomas, 3rd Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (7 March 1714 – 6 June 1789) was from 1735 to 1789 the third Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort.

Charles Thomas
Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Period	1735–1789
Predecessor	Dominic Marquard
Successor	Dominic Constantine
Born	7 March 1714 Augsburg
Died	6 June 1789 (aged 75) Kleinheubach
Spouse	Princess Maria Charlotte of Holstein-Wiesenburg Maria Josepha von Stipplin (morganatic)
Issue	Leopoldine, Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Full name German: Karl Thomas
House	House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Father	Dominic Marquard, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Mother	Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Wanfried

Family

Charles Thomas was the eldest son and second children of Dominic Marquard, 2nd Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1690–1735) and his wife Christine Franziska Polyxena (1688-1728) a daughter of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried by his second wife Countess Juliane Alexandrine of Leiningen-Dagsburg.

On 7 July 1736 in Vienna he married Princess Maria Charlotte of Holstein-Wiesenburg (1718–1765). Their only child and daughter Leopoldine (1739 - 1765) married in 1761 her cousin, Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1742-1796). After the death of his first wife, he married morganatically on 4 February 1770 Maria Josepha von Stipplin (1735-1799). This marriage was without issue.

Study

Charles Thomas studied in Prague and in Paris. From 1735 he was a corresponding member of the Académie française and during his life he hold a large library.[1]

Military career

On 4 May 1758 he was made a Palatine Lieutenant General and on 31 December 1769 imperial Lieutenant Fieldmarshal.

Reign

Schloss Löwensteiner, in Albersweiler-St. Johann

Successor

After more than fifty years as reigning prince and without legitimate male heirs, Charles Thomas was succeeded after his death by his nephew, Dominic Constantine (1762-1814), son of his youngest brother Prince Theodor Alexander of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1722-1780).

Footnotes

1. Harald Stockert: Adel im Übergang, S. 20

Bibliography

• Harald Stockert: Adel im Übergang. Die Fürsten und Grafen von Löwenstein-Wertheim zwischen Landesherrschaft und Standesherrschaft 1780-1850, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-17-016605-0
• Christian Schreck: Hofstaat und Verwaltung der Fürsten von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort im 18. Jahrhundert. Leidorf, Rahden/Westfalen, 2006