Prince Karl Johann of Liechtenstein


Prince Karl Johann of Liechtenstein was the third and youngest son of Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein and wife Landgravine Josepha of Fürstenberg-Weitra, nephew of Aloys I, brother of Aloys II and uncle of Johann II and Franz I.
His father, Prince Johann I, ceded governance of Lichtenstein to him when he was still a minor in 1806, according to the terms of a treaty with the Confederation of the Rhine, which dissolved in 1813.

Marriage and issue

On 10 September 1832, in Graz, he married Rosalie d'Hemricourt Gräfin von Grünne, elder sister of Count Karl Ludwig von Grünne, daughter of Count Philipp Ferdinand von Grünne-Pinchart and his wife, Baroness Rosalie van der Feltz. She was widow of Ludwig Johann Heinrich, Graf von Schönfeldt, and had three children: