Career
He renounced his rights as firstborn to marry the actress Henriette Mendel (later Countess of Wallersee). Louis became father in 1858 of a daughter Marie Louise Mendel, who, as Marie Louise von Larisch-Wallersee ("jene Gräfinance Larisch"), was later involved in the Mayerling Incident. Louis remarried the following year, this time to actress Antonie Barth.
In November 1920 Louis died of a stroke and is buried in Munich"s Ostfriedhof.