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Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Electress consort of Saxony
Queen consort of Saxony
Duchess of Warsaw
Amalie as a bride, 1769
Born(1752-05-10)10 May 1752
Mannheim
Died15 November 1828(1828-11-15) (aged 76)
Burial
SpouseFrederick Augustus I of Saxony
IssueMaria Auguste of Saxony
Names
Maria Amalie Auguste
HouseHouse of Wittelsbach
House of Wettin
FatherFrederick Michael of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
MotherCountess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (Maria Amalie Auguste; 10 May 1752 – 15 November 1828) was the last Electress and first Queen of Saxony and Duchess of Warsaw.

Biography

Amalie was born in Mannheim, the daughter of Count Palatine Frederick Michael of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler and his wife, Countess Palatine Maria Francisca of Palatinate-Sulzbach. She was the sister of Maximilian Joseph, later King of Bavaria.

On 29 January 1769 she married the Saxon Elector Frederick Augustus III. In 1806, the Electress and her husband were proclaimed the first King and Queen of Saxony. The following year, Napoleon I made them Duke and Duchess of Warsaw, a newly created principality in Poland.

Amalie bore four children, three of whom were stillborn. Only one daughter, Maria Augusta, attained adulthood, but remained unmarried. From 1804, at the death of her sister-in-law Carolina of Parma, she and her other sister-in-law, Maria Theresa of Austria, shared the responsibility of raising the former's children, something they are said to have done very strictly.[1]

Amalie died on 15 November 1828 at the age of 76, and was buried in the Hofkirche in Dresden.

Issue

  1. unnamed child (born/died 1771)
  2. unnamed child (born/died 1775)
  3. Maria Augusta Nepomucena Antonia Francisca Xaveria Aloysia (born Dresden 21 June 1782; died Dresden 14 March 1863)
  4. unnamed child (born/died 1797)

Ancestry

Family of Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
16. Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
8. Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
17. Countess Palatine Magdalena Katharina of Zweibrücken
4. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
18. Johann Jakob, Count of Rappoltstein
9. Countess Katharina Agathe of Rappoltstein
19. Wild- and Rhinegravine Anna Claudia of Salm-Kyrburg
2. Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
20. Gustav Adolf, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
10. Ludwig Kraft, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
21. Countess Eleonore Claire of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
5. Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken
22. Heinrich Friedrich, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
11. Princess Philippine Henriette of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
23. Countess Juliana Dorothea of Castell-Remlingen
1. Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
24. Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
12. Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
25. Countess Amalie of Nassau-Siegen
6. Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach
26. William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
13. Landgravine Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg
27. Countess Maria of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
3. Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach
28. Philip William, Elector Palatine
14. Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine
29. Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
7. Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg
30. Bogusław Radziwiłł
15. Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł
31. Anna Maria Radziwiłł

References

  1. ^ Justin C. Vovk: In Destiny's Hands: Five Tragic Rulers, Children of Maria Theresa (2010)
Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Born: 10 May 1752 Died: 15 November 1828
German royalty
Preceded by Electress of Saxony
29 January 1769 - 20 December 1806
Electorate abolished
Kingdom created Queen consort of Saxony
20 December 1806 - 5 May 1827
Vacant
Title next held by
Maria Theresa of Tuscany
Duchy created Duchess of Warsaw
9 June 1807 - January 1813
Duchy abolished