County (Principality) of Wied-Neuwied Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Wied-Neuwied | |||||||||||
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| 1698–1806 | |||||||||||
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| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
| Capital | Neuwied | ||||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||||
• Partitioned from Wied | 1698 | ||||||||||
• Raised to principality | 1784 | ||||||||||
| 1806 | |||||||||||
| 1866 | |||||||||||
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Wied-Neuwied was a German statelet in northeastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located northeast of the Rhine River flanking the northern side of the city of Neuwied. Wied-Neuwied emerged from the partitioning of County of Wied. Its status was elevated from county to principality in 1784. It was mediatised to Nassau and Prussia in 1806. [1]
The House of Wied-Neuwied briefly ruled the Principality of Albania in 1914 through William of Albania, the younger son of Prince William. [2] Among other notable members of the family were Prince Alexander Philip Maximilian, the second son of Prince John Frederick Alexander and a famous explorer, ethnologist and naturalist, and Princess Elisabeth, a daughter of Prince Hermann, who married King Carol I of Romania and became the first modern Queen consort of Romania. [3]
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