Wilhelm I of Auersperg

Wilhelm was born on 9 August 1749 in Graz in the Duchy of Styria, which was a state in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of Karl Josef Anton, 5th Prince of Auersperg (1720–1800) Countess Maria Josepha Trautson von Falkenstein (1724–1792).

His paternal grandparents were Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg, 4th Prince of Auersperg, and, his first wife, Princess Marie Dominika of Liechtenstein (a daughter of Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein and Countess Erdmuthe Maria Theresia of Dietrichstein). After his grandmother's death in 1726, his grandfather married Countess Maria Franziska Trautson of Falkenstein (a daughter of Prince Johann Leopold Trautson von Falkenstein), with whom he had nine more children, including Joseph Franz von Auersperg, Prince-Bishop of Passau.{{cite web |title=Joseph Franz Anton Cardinal von Auersperg |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bauer.html |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org |publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy |access-date=19 August 2024}} His maternal grandparents were Count Johann Wilhelm Trautson von Falkenstein and Countess Maria Anna Josepha Ungnad (a daughter of Count Franz Anton Ungnad von Weißendorf).{{cite book |title=Deutsche Adelsproben aus dem Deutschen Ordens-Central-Archive: 2 |date=1868 |page=393 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Deutsche_Adelsproben_aus_dem_Deutschen_O/zGcso7rN0TgC&pg=PA393 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}}

Upon the death of his father on 2 October 1800, he became the reigning Prince of the Principality of Auersperg and the Duke of Gottschee (which Emperor Leopold II had elevated the territory to the Duchy of Gottschee for his father in 1791). Following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Imperial State of Auersperg was mediatised to the Grand Duchy of Baden.{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Hubertus |last2=Ruppelt |first2=Georg |last3=Wolschke-Bulmahn |first3=Joachim |title=Eine Reise in die Schweiz: Das Reisetagebuch des hannoverschen Hofgärtners Heinrich Ludolph Wendland aus dem Jahr 1820 |date=21 July 2015 |publisher=Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München |isbn=978-3-96091-009-1 |page=20 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Eine_Reise_in_die_Schweiz/UaZ4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}}

Gottschee, however, became part of the Napoleonic French Empire during the short-lived period of the Illyrian Provinces. Under this arrangement it was initially part of the province of Ljubljana from 1809 to 1811, and then the province of Carniola from 1811 to 1814, and constituted a separate administrative canton.Svoljšak, Petra. 1995. "Neodvisna kočevska republika." Kronika 43: 103–107, p. 106. The Gottscheers revolted against French rule during the 1809 Gottscheer Rebellion, killing the commissar of the Novo Mesto district, Von Gasparini. With the collapse of the Illyrian provinces, Gottschee was returned to Habsburg rule within the Kingdom of Illyria.Matijevič, Meta. 1998. "Napad kmetov na francoske vojake v Novem mestu leta 1809." Kronika 46: 42–46, p. 44.

File:Kněžna Marie Gabriela von Auersperg, roz. z Lobkowicz.jpg, by Franz Schrotzberg, 1843]]

Auersperg was married to Countess Leopoldine von Waldstein-Wartenberg (1761–1846),{{cite book |title=Gothaischer genealogischer Hofkalender nebst diplomatisch-statistichem Jahrbuch |date=1919 |publisher=J. Perthes. |page=116 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gothaischer_genealogischer_Hofkalender_n/okdlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA116 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}} a daughter of Johann Vincenz Ferreris, Count of Waldstein, Lord of Wartenberg, and Countess Anna Sophia Marie von Sternberg.{{cite book |title=Ahnen-Tafeln |date=1846 |publisher=Sauerländer |pages=3–4 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ahnen_Tafeln/9awblPHuTWwC&pg=PA3 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}} Together, they were the parents of:

• Maria Josepha von Auersperg (1777–1811), who married Johann Baptista Maria van Goethem de St. Agathe.
• Henriette von Auersperg (1778–1781), who died young.
• Marie Sophie von Auersperg (1780–1865), who married Count Josef Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin, second son of Johann Rudolf, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin, in 1802.{{cite book |last1=Watterichsburg |first1=F. C. Watterich von |title=Handwörterbuch der Landeskunde des Königreichs Böhmen: mit einer Special-Karte von Böhmen |date=1845 |publisher=Medau |page=10 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Handw%C3%B6rterbuch_der_Landeskunde_des_K%C3%B6n/wLMAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA10 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}}
• Karl Wilhelm II von Auersperg (1782–1827), who married Countess Adelheid zu Windisch-Grätz, a daughter of Count Joseph Nicholas of Windisch-Graetz. After her death in 1806, he married Friedrike Luise von Lenthe, a daughter of Carl Levin Otto von Lenthe and Henriette Friederike Wilhelmine Sophie Bennigsen von Banteln (a daughter of Count Levin August von Bennigsen).
• Carl Wilhelm Johann Nepomuk von Auersperg (1783–1847), who married Auguste Eleonore Elisabeth Antonie von Lenthe, also a daughter of Carl Levin Otto von Lenthe.{{cite book |title=Gothaischer genealogischer Hofkalender nebst diplomatisch-statistischem Jahrbuch |date=1863 |publisher=Perthes |page=99 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gothaischer_genealogischer_Hofkalender_n/6ZdAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA99 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}}{{cite book |title=Gothaischer Hof Kalender zum Nutzen und Vergnügen |date=1902 |publisher=Perthes |page=108 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gothaischer_Hof_Kalender_zum_Nutzen_und/fjfxeuCb4TUC&pg=PA108 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}}
• Maria Theresia von Auersperg (1784–1819){{cite book |title=Genealogisch-historisch-statistischer Almanach: auf das Jahr ... |date=1832 |publisher=Landes-Industrie-Comptoir |page=350 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Genealogisch_historisch_statistischer_Al/3pJAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA350 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}}
• Vincenz Nepomuk Columban von Auersperg (1790–1812),{{cite book |title=Gothaischer Hof Kalender zum Nutzen und Vergnügen |date=1942 |publisher=Perthes |page=173 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J5hubDgOPCgC |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}} who married Marie Gabrielle von Lobkowicz, eldest daughter of Joseph Franz, 7th Prince of Lobkowicz.{{cite book |title=Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels |date=1951 |publisher=C.A. Starke |page=182 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S7luH_9M3jgC |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}}

The Prince died on 16 March 1822 in Sopron in the Kingdom of Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl.{{cite book |title=Genealogisches, geographisches, statistisches, und historisches Handbuch für Zeitungsleser und zum Hausgebrauche: oder ausführl. Genealogie aller europäischen u. einiger ausser-europäischen Regenten, u. d. lebenden Familienmitglieder ihrer u. vieler andren in Deutschland, Frankreich etc. begüterten fürstl., gräfl. etc. Häuser : auf d. Jahr .. |date=1830 |publisher=Sommer |page=4 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Genealogisches_geographisches_statistisc/4ZVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA4 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=de}}

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