Princely coat of arms of the Castell-Rüdenhausen family, 1901
Rüdenhausen Castle

Castell-Rüdenhausen was a county of the Holy Roman Empire in the region of Franconia in northern Bavaria. It was created in 1597 as a partition of Castell and was ruled by a branch of the Counts of Castell. In 1806, it was mediatised to Bavaria.

On 7 March 1901, both branches of the family were raised to the hereditary rank of prince in primogeniture with the style of Serene Highness by Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria. A morganatic branch of this princely house is the comital Faber-Castell family.

Counts of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1597)

  • Godfrey (1597–1635)
  • George Frederick (1635–1653)
  • Philip Godfrey (1653–1681)
  • John Frederick (1681–1749)
  • Frederick Louis (1749–1803)
  • Christian Frederick (previously Count of Castell-Castell) (1803–1806)

(Mediatized) Counts of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1806)

  • Christian Frederick (1806–1850)
  • Wolfgang (1850–1901)

(Mediatized) Princes of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1901)

  • Wolfgang, Count 1850–1901, 1st Prince 1901–1913 (1830–1913), m. Princess Emma of Ysenburg and Büdingen Casimir, 2nd Prince 1913–1933 (1861–1933), m. Countess Mechtild of Bentinck Rupert, 3rd Prince 1933–1944 (1910–1944) Siegfried, 4th Prince 1944–2007 (1916–2007), m. Countess Irene of Solms-Laubach Johann-Friedrich, 5th Prince 2007–2014 (1948–2014), m. Countess Maria of Schönborn-Wiesentheid Otto, 6th Prince 2014–present (b. 1985), m. Sophia Mautner von Markhof Lelio Johann-Friedrich Theodor (b. 13 October 2020)

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