Louise Caroline of Hochberg

Countess Louise Caroline von Hochberg, born Geyer von Geyersberg (26 May 1768 in Karlsruhe – 23 June 1820, Karlsruhe), from 1787 Baroness von Hochberg, from 1796 Countess of Hochberg, was the second wife of the Margrave, Elector and later Grand Duke Charles Frederick of Baden. Her descendants eventually ascended the grand ducal throne and reigned until 1918.

Origin

Louise Caroline Geyer von Geyersberg was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Heinrich Philip Geyer von Geyersberg (1729-1772) and his wife, Countess Maximiliana Hedwiger von Sponeck (1730-1804). The latter was the niece-in-law of Leopold Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard.

Louise Caroline descends from a Lower Austrian Geiger family. Her ancestor, Walther Geiger, a postal administrator in Vienna, being ennobled in the Holy Roman Empire, along with some collateral relatives, in 1595. In 1625 Emperor Ferdinand II authorized them to add the noble suffix von Geyersberg.

Following the wedding, the Margrave declared that his wife would bear the title of Baroness von Hochberg.

Offspring By her marriage to Charles Frederick she had the following children: Leopold (29 August 1790 – 24 April 1852) William (8 April 1792 – 11 October 1859) Frederick Alexander (10 June 1793 – 18 June 1793) Amalie (26 January 1795 – 14 September 1869), married on 19 April 1818 Charles Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg (28 October 1796 – 22 October 1854) Maximilian (8 December 1796 – 6 March 1882).

References and notes

Entry in the Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie