Charles Egon IV, Prince of Fürstenberg


Charles Egon IV Maria Frédéric Emile Kaspar Henri Guillaume Kamill Max Louis Victor, prince of Fürstenberg was a German prince.

Early life

He was born in Kruschowitz, the son of Charles Egon III of Fürstenberg and his wife Elisabeth, youngest daughter of Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz.
He was taught by private tutors and travelled in his youth, as well as assisting at philosophical and legal conferences at Heidelberg University from 1872 to 1874. He then continued to study at Strasbourg University.

Career

After his studies at Strasbourg University, he entered the Prussian Army as a lieutenant in a hussar regiment in Potsdam, rising to major then colonel.
He accompanied the Prince of Hatzfeld-Trachenberg in March 1888 on the latter's trip to Rome to meet pope Leo XIII. Following his father's death in 1892 he became prince of Fürstenberg. A member of the Prussian House of Lords, the Württemberg House of Lords and the upper house in Baden, he was elected to the Reichstag on 10 November 1893.

Personal life

On 6 July 1881 he married countess Dorothée "Dolly" de Talleyrand-Périgord, a daughter of duke Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord and his wife Pauline de Castellane.
The prince died at the chateau de Bruttan near Nice on 27 November 1896. His widow, Dorothée, remarried to Jean de Castallane.