Charles Egon IV, Prince of Fürstenberg

Charles Egon IV, Prince of Fürstenberg (Charles Egon Maria Frédéric Emile Kaspar Henri Guillaume Kamill Max Louis Victor; 25 August 1852 – 27 November 1896) was a German military officer and nobleman who was the head of the House of Fürstenberg from 1892 to 1896.

Early life

He was born in Krušovice, the son of Charles Egon III of Fürstenberg and his wife Elisabeth, youngest daughter of Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz.[1]

He was taught by private tutors and traveled in his youth, as well as assisting at philosophical and legal conferences at Heidelberg University from 1872 to 1874. He then continued to study at Strasbourg University.[1]

Career

After his studies at Strasbourg University, he entered the Prussian Army as a lieutenant in a hussar regiment at Potsdam, rising to major, then colonel.[1]

He accompanied the Prince of Hatzfeld-Trachenberg in March 1888 on the latter's trip to Rome to meet Pope Leo XIII. Following his father's death in 1892, he became Prince of Fürstenberg. A member of the Prussian House of Lords, the Württemberg House of Lords and the upper house in Baden, he was elected to the Reichstag on 10 November 1893.[2]

Personal life

On 6 July 1881, he married countess Dorothée "Dolly" de Talleyrand-Périgord (1862–1948), a daughter of duke Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord (son of duke Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord and princess Dorothée de Courlande) and his wife, Pauline de Castellane (daughter of marshal Boniface de Castellane and his wife, Louise-Cordélia Greffulhe).[3][4]

The prince died at the chateau de Bruttan near Nice on 27 November 1896. His widow, Dorothée, remarried to Jean de Castallane.[5]

Sources
  1. (in German) Frank Raberg, Biographisches Handbuch der württembergischen Landtagsabgeordneten 1815–1933, 2001.
  2. (in German) Archives Municipales de la Ville de Strasbourg, Registre des Inhabitants ("Meldekarteikarten"), Affaire de Concours de Mademoiselle Mathilde Wahl (Janvier -Fevrier 1897).
  3. "Decease of an Old French Soldier". The New York Times. 11 October 1862. Retrieved 3 January 2015. One of the most eccentric military notabilities of the present epoch, the Marshal Count Castellane, has just died at Lyons.
  4. (in German) Base Roglo, Karl Egon IV. zu Fürstenberg.
  5. (in German) Friedrich von Weech, Fürstenberg, Karl Egon IV. Fürst zu, in "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie" (ADB), 1904.


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