Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen


Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen was the youngest child of Bruno, 3rd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen and his wife, Countess Bertha of Castell-Rüdenhausen. Through her second marriage to Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Anna was the titular Princess consort of Lippe.

Marriage and issue

Anna married firstly to Count Ernst of Lippe-Weissenfeld, sixth child and youngest son of Count Franz of Lippe-Weissenfeld and his wife Baroness Marie of Beschwitz, daughter of Baron Ferdinand of Beschwitz, on 21 November 1911 at Schloss Büdingen in Büdingen. Anna and Ernst had one daughter before Ernst was killed at Gołdap on the Eastern Front during World War I on 11 September 1914:
Anna married secondly to Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, second eldest child of Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld and his wife Countess Karoline of Wartensleben, on 26 April 1922 in Büdingen. Anna and Leopold had one son: