Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis

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Marriages and family

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A proposed bride was

Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg

, but the match never materialized.

Alexander Ferdinand married

Frankfurt am Main

. Alexander Ferdinand and Sophie Christine had five children:

• Princess Sophie Christine of Thurn and Taxis (baptized 8 December 1731 – 23 December 1731)
• Karl Anselm, 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (2 June 1733 – 13 November 1805)

∞ 3 September 1753 Duchess Auguste of Württemberg (30 October 1734 – 4 June 1787)

∞ 1787 Elisabeth Hildebrand, Frau von Train

• Princess Luise Auguste Charlotte of Thurn and Taxis (27 October 1734 – January 1735)
• Prince Friedrich August of Thurn and Taxis (baptized 5 December 1736 – 12 September 1755)
• Prince Ludwig Franz Karl Lamoral Joseph of Thurn and Taxis (13 October 1737 – 7 August 1738)

Alexander Ferdinand married secondly Princess Louise de Lorraine (1722-1747), third eldest daughter of Louis, Prince of Lambesc and his wife Jeanne Henriette de Durfort (1691-1750), on 22 March 1745 in Paris, but she died January 6, 1747, without issue.

Alexander Ferdinand married thirdly Princess Maria Henriette Josepha of Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (1732-1772), daughter of Joseph Wilhelm Ernst, Prince of Fürstenberg and his wife Countess Theresia Anna Maria Eleonore of Waldstein-Wartenberg (1707-1756), on 21 September 1750 in Regensburg. Alexander Ferdinand and Maria Henriette Josepha had seven children:

• Princess Maria Theresia of Thurn and Taxis (born 16 January 1755 – 20 December 1810)

∞ 20 August 1780 Ferdinand, Count of

Ahlefeldt-Langeland

(9 May 1747 - 28 September 1815)

• Princess Josephine of Thurn and Taxis (born 1 August 1759; died at young age)
• Prince Heinrich Alexander of Thurn and Taxis (baptized 14 September 1762; died at young age)
• Prince Franz Joseph of Thurn and Taxis (2 October 1764; buried 20 February 1765)
• Princess Maria Anna Josepha of Thurn and Taxis (baptized 28 Sep 1766 – 10 August 1805)
• Princess Marie Elisabetha Alexandrina of Thurn and Taxis (30 November 1767 – 21 July 1822)

∞ 4 November 1790 Karl Joseph, Landgrave of Fürstenberg (26 June 1760 – 25 March 1799)

∞ Joseph, Baron of Lasaberg (died 15 March 1855)

• Prince Maximilian Joseph of Thurn and Taxis (9 May 1769 – 15 May 1831)

∞ 6 June 1791 Princess Eleonore of

Lobkowicz

(22 April 1770 – 9 November 1834)

from this marriage the Czech branch of the House of Thurn and Taxis descends

Ancestry

References