Principality of Auersperg

Imperial Barony (County, Principality) of Auersperg Reichsfreiherrschaft (Grafschaft, Fürstentum) Auersperg
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1550–1806 →   →
Coat of arms
Capital	Not specified
Government	Principality
Historical era	Middle Ages
- Established	1550
- Raised to county	1630
- Raise to principality	1653
- Joined Council of Princes	1654
- mediatised     to Bavaria and Austria	1806 1806

Auersperg Palace, Vienna

Auersperg was an Austrian princely family, which held estates in Austria and Thengen (located in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, north of Schaffhausen, Switzerland.)

The princely family of Auersperg was a junior branch of the house of Counts of Auersperg from Carniola, one of the hereditary Habsburg duchies and what is now in Slovenia. It was elevated to princely rank in 1653 and after their purchase of Tengen they became immediate Princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

The princes of Auersperg also held at various times the duchies of Silesia-Münsterberg and Gottschee.

Their territories was mediatised to Austria and Baden in 1806.

Princes of Auersperg (1653–1806)

1. Johann Weikhard (1653–77), Count of Auersperg, Duke of Silesia-Münsterberg
2. Johann Ferdinand Francis (1677–1707), Duke of Silesia-Münsterberg
3. Francis Charles (1707–13), Duke of Silesia-Münsterberg
4. Henry Joseph John (1713–83), Duke of Silesia-Münsterberg
5. Charles Joseph (1783–1800), Duke of Gottschee, Duke of Silesia-Münsterberg
6. William I (1800–06), Duke of Gottschee
7. William II (1815–1827), Duke of Gottschee
8. Charles William (1827–1890), prime-minister of Austria.
9. Charles (1890–1915)
10. Karl Adolf (1915– ) 10th Prince of Auersperg, Duke of Gottshee, Princely Count of Wels; married

• • 1937 Countess Margit Batthyany-Strattmann (1914–59)
    • Adolf Karl (1937– )
    • Ferdinand (1939– )
    • Gabrielle (1941– )
    • Johanna (1942– )
  • 1961 (as second husband) Countess Feodora von Solms-Baruth (1920– )
    • Karoline (1962– )