Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg
Hereditary Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
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Princess and Landgravine Christiane Amalie of Hesse-Homburg,[citation needed] full German name: Christiane Amalie, Landgräfin von Hessen-Homburg[citation needed] (29 June 1774, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire[citation needed] – 3 February 1846, Dessau, Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau[citation needed]) was a member of the House of Hesse-Homburg and a Princess and Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg by birth. Through her marriage to Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Amalie was also a member of the House of Ascania and Hereditary Princess of Anhalt-Dessau.
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire
Dessau, Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt
Prince George Bernhard
Prince Paul Christian
Louise, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg
Prince Frederick Augustus
Prince William Waldemar
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 Portrait by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, c. 1797–98 | |||||
| Born | 29 June 1774 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire | ||||
| Died | 3 February 1846 (aged 71) Dessau, Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau | ||||
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| Issue | Auguste, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt Prince George Bernhard Prince Paul Christian Louise, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg Prince Frederick Augustus Prince William Waldemar | ||||
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| House | Hesse-Homburg | ||||
| Father | Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg | ||||
| Mother | Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt | ||||
Family
Amalie was the fifth child of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg and his wife Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.[citation needed]
Marriage and issue
Amalie married Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, only surviving child of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife Margravine Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, on 12 June 1792 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire.[citation needed] Amalie and Frederick had seven children:[citation needed]
- Amalie Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 18 August 1793 – d. Rudolstadt, 12 June 1854), married on 15 April 1816 to Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
- Leopold IV Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 1 October 1794 – d. Dessau, 22 May 1871); since 1863 Duke of all Anhalt.
- George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 21 February 1796 – d. Dresden, 16 October 1865)
- Paul Christian of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 22 March 1797 – d. Dessau, 4 May 1797)
- Louise Fredericka of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 1 March 1798 – d. Homburg, 11 June 1858), a deaf-mute from birth; married on 12 February 1818 to her maternal uncle Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.
- Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 23 September 1799 – d. Dessau, 4 December 1864).
- William Waldemar of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 29 May 1807 – d. Vienna, 8 October 1864), married morganatically on 9 July 1840 to Emilie Klausnitzer (b. Dessau, 30 January 1812 – d. Vienna, 28 March 1888), created Freifrau von Stolzenberg in 1842.
The poet Friedrich Hölderlin dedicated his 1800 poem Aus stillem Hauße senden - An eine Fürstin von Dessau to the Hereditary Princess.
Ancestry
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