Weriand Alois Leopold Ulrich Johann Paul, Prince of Windisch-Graetz (31 May 1790 â 27 October 1867), was a Slovenian-Austrian prince and landowner.
He was the third, but second surviving, son of Duchess Maria Leopoldine Franziska of Arenberg (1751âÂÂ1812) and Count Joseph Nicholas of Windisch-Graetz. His elder sister, Countess Sophie Luise Wilhelmine of Windisch-Graetz, married Prince Karl of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (the son of Dominic Constantine, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort).<Ref>Harald Stockert: Adel im ÃÂbergang. Die Fürsten und Grafen von Löwenstein-Wertheim zwischen Landesherrschaft und Standesherrschaft, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2000, </Ref> His elder surviving brother was Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, who married Princess Marie Eleonore Philippine Luise of Schwarzenberg (daughter of Prince Josef Johann of Schwarzenberg), and was raised to the rank of prince in 1804.
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 ÃÂervená 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 Marck-Schleiden (a daughter of Count Louis Engelbert von der Marck-Schleiden).
Like his elder brother had been in 1804, he was raised to the rank of hereditary 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 Carniola (now Planina, Slovenia) and Gonobitz Castle (now Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia), which he acquired in 1826 and which also included the Seiz Carthusian monastery. For a short time he owned à ½amberk Castle with HelvÃÂkovice, Podsreda Castle in Kozje, Predjama Castle in 1846, and Wagensberg Castle (now Bogenà ¡perk in Litija, Slovenia) in 1853.
On 11 October 1812 at Vienna, Windisch-Graetz was married to Princess Maria Eleonore Karolina von Lobkowicz (1795âÂÂ1876), a daughter of Joseph Franz Maximilian, 7th Prince of Lobkowicz and Princess Maria Karolina von Schwarzenberg (a daughter of Johann I, Prince of Schwarzenberg). Together, they were the parents of:
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.
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 Auersperg); Princess Alexandrine (wife of Count Rudolf von Khevenhüller-Metsch), Princess Olga (wife of Andreas Mocenigo), and Princess Marie (who married her first cousin, Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg); Prince Ernst Wilhelm; Princess Aloisia Maria Mathilde; and Princess Elisabeth Maria Mathilde.