Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Princess Henriëtte of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (22 April 1780, in Kirchheimbolanden – 2 January 1857, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian and Carolina of Orange-Nassau, daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange.
Princess Henriette | |
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Duchess Louis of Württemberg | |
Born | Kirchheimbolanden, Empire of France | 22 April 1780
Died | 2 January 1857 76) Kirchheim unter Teck | (aged
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House | Nassau-Weilburg |
Father | Prince Charles Christian I, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg |
Mother | Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau |
She is an ancestor of branches of the Austrian Imperial and Royal Family and Russian Imperial Family and Dutch Royal Family; the German Royal, Grand Ducal, Ducal, Princely and Princely noble families of: Baden, Bavaria, Hanover, Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Oldenburg, Salm-Salm, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Waldeck and Pyrmont and Wied; in addition to the British, Greek, Romanian, Spanish and Yugoslavian Royal Families. A maternal second cousin of the children of king George III of Great Britain.
Marriage and children
On 28 January 1797, she married Duke Louis of Württemberg, a son of Duke Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, at the Hermitage, near Bayreuth.
They had five children:
- Maria Dorothea (1797–1855); married in 1819 Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776–1847).
- Amelie Theresa (June 28, 1799 – November 28, 1848); married in 1817 Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1789–1868).
- Pauline Therese (1800–1873), married in 1820 her first cousin William I of Wurttemberg.
- Elisabeth Alexandrine (1802–1864); married in 1830 Prince Wilhelm of Baden (1792–1859).
- Alexander (9 September 1804 – 4 July 1885); founded a cadet branch of the House of Württemberg, known as the Dukes of Teck.