Count Karl Leopold von Schlieben
Count Karl Leopold von Schlieben was the Prussian Minister of War between 1769 and 1772.
Early life
He was born in Magdeburg. His father was Count George Adam von Schlieben and his mother was Countess Katharina Dorothea Finck von Finckenstein.Marriage and issue
He married Countess Marie Eleanore von Lehndorff on 18 January 1747 in Königsberg. They had two daughters:- Countess Marie Karoline of Schlieben ; married Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlieben and had issue. Through their only daughter Amalie, she is an ancestress of the Princes of Dohna-Schlobitten and Princes of Hochberg-Pless.
- Countess Friederike Amalie of Schlieben ; married, on 9 March 1780 in Königsberg, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and had issue. Through her son, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, she is an ancestress of the Royal Houses of Denmark, Greece, Norway, and the United Kingdom.