Castell-Rüdenhausen

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)