George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach
George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach, was a German count, member of the House of Erbach and ruler over Erbach, Freienstein, Wildenstein, Michelstadt and Breuberg.
Early life
Born in Fürstenau, he was the fifth child and third son of George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg by his third wife, Countess Elisabeth Dorothea of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a daughter of George Frederick II, Count of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst.Erbach domains
Because he and his brothers were still minors at the time of their father's death in 1647, the guardianship and rule over the Erbach domains were assigned to their eldest half-brother George Ernest, who ruled alone until his death in 1669, without issue. George Louis I and his surviving younger brothers George IV and George Albert II ruled jointly the Erbach lands until 1672, when was made the formal division of their possessions: George Louis I received the districts of Erbach, Freienstein and Wildenstein. The death of George IV in 1678 without surviving issue forced another division in the Erbach patrimony; this time George Louis received the districts of Michelstadt and Breuberg.Marriage and issue
In Culemborg on 26 December 1664 George Louis I married with Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck-Eisenberg, a daughter of Philipp Dietrich, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, who inherited the County of Culemborg, and Countess Maria Magdalena von Nassau-Siegen. They had sixteen children:- Henriette.
- Henriette Juliane, died unmarried and without issue.
- Philipp Louis, Count of Erbach-Erbach, married his cousin, Countess Albertine Elisabeth von Waldeck-Eisenberg. The marriage remained childless
- Charles Albert Louis.
- George Albert.
- Amalie Katharina.
- Frederick Charles.
- A son.
- Wilhelmine Sophie.
- Magdalena Charlotte.
- Wilhelm Louis.
- Amalie Katharina.
- Fredericka Charlotte.
- Frederick Charles, Count of Erbach-Limpurg, married Countess Sophie Eleonore von Limpurg-Speckfeld and had issue
- Ernest.
- Sophia Albertine, married on 4 February 1704 to Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.