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In 1866, Ludwig Wilhelm succeeded his father as head of the Princely House of Bentheim and Steinfurt. As such, he became a hereditary member of the Prussian House of Lords and the First Chamber of the Diet of the Kingdom of Hanover.
Ludwig Wilhelm, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt was a Royal Hanoverian and Prussian Lieutenant General and the Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt from 3 November 1866 to 28 September 1890.
Today, the still existing branches of the House of Bentheim are the Princes of Bentheim-Steinfurt with their seat at Steinfurt Castle (also still owners of the ancestral seat Burg Bentheim) and the Princes of Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda with their seat at Rheda Castle (also still owners of Hohenlimburg Castle) and the Counts Bentheim-Tecklenburg ...
Ludwig Wilhelm, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt was a Royal Hanoverian and Prussian Lieutenant General and the Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt from 3 November 1866 to 28 September 1890.
Ludwig Wilhelm Geldrich Ernst, 1.Fürst zu Bentheim und Steinfurt; ... Friedrich Wilhelm Belgicus zu Bentheim-Steinfurt; Prince Ludwig of Bentheim and Steinfurt;
In Burgsteinfurt on 16 August 1873, William married, secondly, Princess Juliane of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1842–1878), his niece (daughter of his older half-sister Bertha and her husband, Ludwig Wilhelm, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt). Before her death on 29 April 1878 in Burgsteinfurt, they were the parents of four children:
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Biography. Imperial Count of Bentheim and Steinfurt, as the second son of Count Carl Paul Ernst and his wife, Sophie Charlotte, the eldest daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm II, Prince of Nassau-Siegen. As his brother Carl (13 February 1753 – 5 September 1772) died before their father, Ludwig succeeded in 1780 as Count of Steinfurt.
