Chlodwig

In accordance with the compromise customary at the time, Prince Chlodwig and his brothers were brought up in the religion of their father, while his sisters followed that of their mother.

As the younger son of a cadet line of his house it was necessary for Prince Chlodwig to follow a profession.

He is also frequently mentioned passim in Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe’s Memoirs.

On the 12th of November 1834 the landgrave Viktor Amadeus of Hesse-Rotenburg died, leaving to his nephews, the princes Viktor and Chlodwig Hohenlohe, his allodial estates: the duchy of Ratibor in Silesia, the principality of Corvey in Westphalia, and the lordship of Treffurt in the Prussian governmental district of Erfurt.

On the death of Prince Franz Joseph on the 14th of January 1841 it was decided that the principality of Schillingsf�rst should pass to the third brother, Philipp Ernst, as the two elder sons, Viktor and Chlodwig, were provided for already under their uncle’s will, the one with the duchy of Ratibor, the other with Corvey and Treffurt.