Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

Hermina of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
Archduchess of Austria
Spouse Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary
Issue
Archduchess Hermine Amalie Marie
Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary
Full name
German: Hermine Amalie Marie
House House of Ascania
House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Father Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
Mother Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg
Born 2 December 1797(1797-12-02)
Hoym
Died 14 September 1817(1817-09-14) (aged 19)
Budapest
Religion Calvinism

Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (German: Prinzessin Hermine Amalie Marie von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym; 2 December 1797 in Hoym, Germany – 14 September 1817 in Budapest, Hungary) was by birth a princess of the House of Ascania and by marriage an Archduchess of Austria.

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Family

She was the eldest daughter of Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Princess Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg. Hermine had three younger sisters: Adelheid, Emma, and Ida.

Marriage

She was married 30 August 1815 in Schaumburg. The princess was just 17 years old when she married the 39-year-old archduke. Archduke Joseph had no male heirs, since his first wife, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, died giving birth to a stillborn child.

Princess Hermine also died in childbirth at the age of 19, after giving birth to fraternal twins. Both of her children died unmarried and without issue. On 24 August 1819, her husband married for a third time to her first cousin, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg.

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Ancestry