Prince Hugo Weriand, 3rd Prince of Windisch-Graetz

Hugo Weriand Alexander Wilhelm Alfred, 3rd Prince of Windisch-Graetz (17 November 1854 – 15 May 1920) was an Austrian prince.

Early life

Hugo Vinzenz was born at Florence in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany on 17 November 1854. He was the son of Hugo, 2nd Prince of Windisch-Graetz (1823–1904) and Duchess Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1824–1859). From his parents' marriage, his siblings were Princess Alexandrine (wife of Count Rudolf von Khevenhüller-Metsch), Princess Olga (wife of Andreas Mocenigo), and Princess Marie (who married their first cousin, Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg). After his mother died in 1859, his father married Princess Matylda Radziwill, with whom his father had three more children: Prince Ernst Wilhelm; Princess Aloisia Maria Mathilde and Princess Elisabeth Maria Mathilde; all of whom died unmarried. and Princess Maria Lobkowicz (a daughter of Joseph Franz Maximilian, 7th Prince of Lobkowicz). His maternal grandparents were Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia.

Career When his father died in 1904, Windisch-Graetz succeeded as head of a cadet branch of the House of Windisch-Graetz, a mediatised house whose members historically bore the style of "Serene Highness".

Personal life On 16 May 1885 in Vienna, he married Princess Christiane von Auersperg (1866–1962), a daughter of Prince Vincenz von Auersperg (a grandson of Prince Wilhelm I of Auersperg) and Wilhelmine von Colloredo-Mannsfeld. Together, they were the parents of:

Princess Marie Luise Christiane Alexandrine (1886–1976), who married Count Giovanni Ceschi a Santa Croce, a son of Count Luigi Ceschi a Santa Croce and Leopoldine von Thun und Hohenstein, in 1911. in 1912. Princess Elisabeth Mathilde (1889–1983), who married Leone Rosa in 1961. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Prince Hugo Vinzenz. Prince Hugo Maximilian (who was killed in action over Italy during World War II); Prince Maximilian Antonius (who married Doña Maria Luisa Serra di Gerace, the legitimatised daughter of Gian Battista Serra, 12th Prince of Gerace); and Prince Friedrich Karl (who married Princess Dorothea of Hesse, a daughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark).