Amalie of Saxe-Hildburghausen
| Amalie of Saxe-Hildburghausen | |
|---|---|
| Spouse(s) | Prince Louis of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Oehringen |
| Noble family | House of Wettin |
| Father | Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen |
| Mother | Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau |
| Born |
21 July 1732 Hildburghausen |
| Died |
19 June 1799 (aged 66) Öhringen |
Sophie Amelia Caroline of Saxe-Hildburghausen (German: Sophie Amalie Karoline von Sachsen-Hildburghausen; born: 21 July 1732 in Hildburghausen; died: 19 June 1799 in Öhringen) was a princess of Saxe-Hildburghausen and by marriage Duchess of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Oehringen.
Life
Amalie was the youngest child and only daughter of the Duke Ernest Frederick II of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1707–1745) from his marriage to Caroline (1700–1758), daughter of Count Philip Charles of Erbach-Fürstenau.
She married on 28 January 1749 in Hildburghausen Prince Louis of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Oehringen (1723–1805). The only child of this marriage died young, so the line died out with Louis and the territory fell to Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen. In 1770 she invited her disgraced brother in Hildburghausen Eugene and his wife to live at the court in Öhringen, where they both lived until her death.
Caroline is buried with her husband in a special resting place of the Collegiate Church in Öhringen. Here, in the southern transept, a marble relief of Caroline and her husband was created in a neo-classicist style by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow on the occasion of the golden wedding of the couple in 1799.[1]
Issue
Amalie had one son from her marriage:
- Charles Louis Frederick (1754–1755)
References and sources
- Beschreibung des Oberamts Oehringen, H. Lindemann, Stuttgart, 1865, p. 111 (Digitized)
- Heinrich Ferdinand Schoeppl: Die Herzoge von Sachsen-Altenburg, Bozen, 1917, reprinted Altenburg, 1992