Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen

Princess Anna of Ysenburg und Büdingen[citation needed] (10 February 1886, Büdingen – 8 February 1980, Detmold) was the youngest child of Bruno, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen and his second wife, Countess Bertha of Castell-Rüdenhausen. Through her second marriage to Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Anna was the titular Princess consort of Lippe.

Princess Anna
Princess consort of Lippe
Tenure26 April 1922 – 30 December 1949
Born(1886-02-10)10 February 1886
Büdingen
Died8 February 1980(1980-02-08) (aged 93)
Detmold
SpouseCount Ernst of Lippe-Weissenfeld
Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
IssuePrincess Eleonore of Lippe-Weissenfeld
Armin, Prince of Lippe
Names
Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen
HouseYsenburg-Büdingen
FatherBruno, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen
MotherCountess Bertha of Castell-Rüdenhausen

Marriage and issue

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Anna married firstly to Count Ernst of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1870-1914), sixth child and youngest son of Count Franz of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1820-1880) and his wife, Baroness Marie of Beschwitz (1836-1921), daughter of Baron Ferdinand of Beschwitz, on 21 November 1911 at Schloss Büdingen in Büdingen. Anna and Ernst had one daughter before Ernst was killed at Gołdap on the Eastern Front during World War I on 11 September 1914:

  • Princess Eleonore of Lippe-Weissenfeld (born 11 August 1913 in Dresden; died 19 October 1964 in The Hague)[1]
∞ Sweder, Count of Rechteren-Limpurg (1910–1972) on 19 May 1935 in Detmold, divorced in 1944
  • Adolph Roderik Ernst Leopold, Count of Rechteren-Limpurg (born 25 November 1938)
∞ Ingrid Pieksma-Klynstra (born 30 December 1935),[2] mother of Brigitte Klynstra (born 10 January 1959) and grandmother of Prince Hugo de Bourbon de Parme (born 20 January 1997)[3]
  • Anna Pia Amalaswintha, Countess of Rechteren-Limpurg (born 27 September 1940)
∞ Count Hans Günter of Solms-Laubach (born 26 June 1927 in Munich) , had two issue

Anna married secondly to Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, second eldest child of Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld and his wife, Countess Karoline of Wartensleben, on 26 April 1922 in Büdingen. Anna and Leopold had one son:

∞ Traute Becker (born 16 February 1925 in Hänigsen, near Uetze) on 27 March 1953 in Göttingen
∞ Countess Maria of Solms-Laubach (born 12 August 1968 in Frankfurt am Main) on 13 October 1994, had five issue

Ancestry

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References

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Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen
Cadet branch of the House of Ysenburg
Born: 10 February 1886 Died: 8 February 1980
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
Princess Bertha of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
— TITULAR —
Princess consort of Lippe
26 April 1922 – 30 December 1949
Reason for succession failure:
Principality abolished in 1918
Succeeded by
Marie Traute Becker