Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover

Infobox Hanoverian Royalty|highness
name = Prince Ludwig Rudolph
title = Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover
spouse = Countess Isabelle of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli
issue = Prince Otto Heinrich
titles = "HRH" Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover
royal house = House of Hanover
full name = Ludwig Rudolph Georg Wlhelm Philipp Friedrich Wolrad Maximiliancite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10169.htm#i101685| title=Ludwig Hanover, Prince of Hanover | date=10 May 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-21 | publisher= [http://thePeerage.com thePeerage.com] | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-21 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff]
father = Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover
mother = Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
date of birth = birth date|1955|11|21|df=yes
place of birth = Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
date of death = death date and age|1988|11|29|1955|11|21|df=yes
place of death = Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria
cause of death = suicide|

Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover (German: "Ludwig Rudolph Georg Wlhelm Philipp Friedrich Wolrad Maximilian Prinz von Hannover"; 21 November 1955 ndash 29 November 1988) was a member of the House of Hanover and a music producer.

Early life and career

Prince Ludwig Rudolph was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany the third child and second son of Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover (1914-1987) and his wife Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1925-1980). Ludwig Rudolph was a great-great-great-great-grandson of George III of the United Kingdom and a great-grandson of Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

Prince Ludwig Rudolph trained to become a music producer in Los Angeles and London. [cite web |url=http://welfen.de/LuBi.htm |title=Ludwig Rudolph (1955-1988) Prinz von Hannover, Herzog zu Braunschweig - Lüneburg |accessdate=2008-08-06 |publisher=Welfen.de ]

Marriage and death

Ludwig Rudolph married Countess Isabelle of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli, a former fashion modelcite web | url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20119303,00.html| title=Death Turns Out the Lights at a Noble Couple's Last Soiree | date=9 January 1989 | accessdate=2008-07-21 | publisher=People Weekly | author=Montgomery Brower and Franz Spelman] and the daughter of Ariprand, Count of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli and Princess Marie Perpetua Euphemia of Auersperg, on 4 October 1987 at Bleiburg, Carinthia in Austria. Ludwig Rudolph and Isabelle had one son:

*HRH Prince "Otto Heinrich" Aripand George Johannes Ernst August Vinzenz Egmont Franz of Hanover (born 13 February 1988)

Ludwig Rudolph committed suicide in Gmunden after discovering his wife Isabelle dead from a cocaine overdosecite web | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD7173EF93AA15752C1A96E948260| title=German Prince Kills Himself After Wife Dies of Overdose | date=31 December 1988 | accessdate=2008-07-21 | publisher=The New York Times | author=Reuters] . Ludwig Rudolph and Isabelle were interred on 2 December 1988 at Grünau im Almtal, Austria

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

*21 November 1955 – 29 November 1988: "His Royal Highness" Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Ancestry

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1=1. Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover
2=2. Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover
3=3. Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
4=4. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
5=5. Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia
6=6. Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
7=7. Princess Hertha of Ysenburg and Büdingen
8=8. Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover
9=9. Princess Thyra of Denmark
10=10. William II, German Emperor
11=11. Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
12=12. Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
13=13. Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe
14=14. Bruno, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen
15=15. Countess Bertha of Castell-Rüdenhausen
16=16. George V of Hanover
17=17. Marie of Saxe-Altenburg
18=18. Christian IX of Denmark
19=19. Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
20=20. Frederick III, German Emperor
21=21. Victoria, Princess Royal
22=22. Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
23=23. Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
24=24. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
25=25. Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel
26=26. George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
27=27. Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont
28=28. Ernst Casimir II, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen
29=29. Countess Thekla of Erbach-Fürstenau
30=30. Adolf, Count of Castell-Rüdenhausen
31=31. Baroness Marie of Thüngen

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