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'''Weriand Alois Leopold Ulrich Johann Paul, Prince of Windisch-Graetz''' (31 May 1790 – 27 October 1867), was a Slovenian-Austrian prince and landowner.

==Early life==
He was the third, but second surviving, son of Duchess Maria Leopoldine Franziska of House of Arenberg|Arenberg (1751–1812) and Count Joseph Nicholas of Windisch-Graetz. His elder sister, Countess Sophie Luise Wilhelmine of Windisch-Graetz, married Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg|Prince Karl of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (the son of Dominic Constantine, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort).Harald Stockert: ''Adel im Übergang. Die Fürsten und Grafen von Löwenstein-Wertheim zwischen Landesherrschaft und Standesherrschaft'', Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2000,
His paternal grandparents were Count Leopold Carl Joseph of Windish-Graetz and Countess Maria Antonia Josepha von Khevenhüller. As his grandfather died young, his father was the heir of his great-grandfather, Count Leopold Johann Victorin Windisch-Graetz (who owned Červená Lhota Castle in Southern Bohemia and the Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha estate in Lower Austria). His maternal grandparents were Charles Marie Raymond, 5th Duke of Arenberg and the former Countess Louise Margarethe von der House of La Marck|Marck-Schleiden (a daughter of Count Louis Engelbert von der Marck-Schleiden).''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Vol.2, 452

==Career==
Like his elder brother had been in 1804, he was raised to the rank of hereditary Fürst|prince in 1822.
From the assets of his mother's estate, he acquired numerous castles in what is now Slovenia, some of which he soon sold again. His main residences were Haasberg Castle in Inner Carniola|Carniola (now Planina, Postojna|Planina, Slovenia)
==Personal life==
On 11 October 1812 at Vienna, Windisch-Graetz was married to Princess Maria Eleonore Karolina von Lobkowicz family|Lobkowicz (1795–1876), a daughter of Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz|Joseph Franz Maximilian, 7th Prince of Lobkowicz and Princess Maria Karolina von House of Schwarzenberg|Schwarzenberg (a daughter of
* Prince ''Karl'' Vincenz Weriand Joseph Gabriel of Windisch-Graetz (1821–1859), who married his cousin, Princess Mathilde of Windisch-Graetz, daughter of Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, in 1857; he was killed at the Battle of Solferino during the Second Italian War of Independence. * Prince Hugo, 2nd Prince of Windisch-Graetz|''Hugo'' Alfred Adolf Philipp of Windisch-Graetz (1823–1904), who married Duchess Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a daughter of Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803–1892)|Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, in 1849. * Princess ''Gabriele'' Marianne Caroline Aglae of Windisch-Graetz (1824–1917), who married Count Friedrich Wilhelm Edmund von Schönburg-Glauchau, a son of Count Heinrich Gottlob Otto Ernest von Schönburg-Glauchau, and Princess Marie Klementine von Schönburg-Waldenburg, in 1852. * Prince ''Ernst'' Ferdinand Weriand of Windisch-Graetz (1827–1918), who married Princess Camilla of Oettingen-Oettingen, a daughter of Prince Otto Carl of House of Oettingen-Oettingen|Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg, and Countess Georgine of Königsegg-Aulendorf, in 1870. * Prince ''Robert'' Johann Joseph of Windisch-Graetz (1831–1913), who died unmarried.
Prince Weriand died at Haasberg Castle on 27 October 1867. As he was predeceased by his eldest son, who died without male issue, his second son, Hugo, became the 2nd Prince of Windisch-Graetz.
===Descendants===
Through his son Hugo, he was a grandfather of Hugo, 3rd Prince of Windisch-Graetz, who married Princess Christiane von Auersperg (a daughter of Prince Vincenz von House of Auersperg|Auersperg);
==Ancestry==

==Notes==

1790 births
1867 deaths
19th-century Austrian nobility
Austrian princes|Windisch-Gratz
Habsburg Bohemian nobility|Windisch-Gratz
Windisch-Graetz|Weriand
People from the Kingdom of Bohemia