Baroness Elisabeth of Wangenheim-Winterstein

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Elisabeth
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Born(1912-01-16)16 January 1912
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
(by marriage)
FatherBaron Othmar von Wangenheim-Winterstein
MotherBaroness Maud von Trützschler zum Falkenstein

Baroness Elisabeth of Wangenheim-Winterstein (

House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
.

Early life

Baroness (

Thüringia at Behringen Castle.[citation needed
]

Her mother died in childbirth in 1913, leaving a son, Baron Jobst von Wangenheim-Winterstein.

Mozart, as well as a fondness for literature, which helped sustain her through difficult times.[1]

Marriage and issue

On 5 October 1944 at

Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
.

They had three children:[citation needed]

  • Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Duchess of Saxony (born Burgellern bei Bamberg, Scheßlitz 22 July 1945), married in Munich on 10 July 1981 to Mindert Diderik de Kant (born Leeuwarden, 6 August 1934). They divorced in 1983, without issue.
  • Prince Michael of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Duke of Saxony (born Bamberg, 15 November 1946)
  • Princess Beatrice-Maria of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Duchess of Saxony (born Bamberg, 11 March 1948), married in London on 9 December 1977 to Martin Charles Davidson (born London, 23 September 1940), and has a daughter.

Because all

House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach until his death in 1988.[citation needed
]

Just before giving birth to their first child, the couple fled eastern Germany in the face of the approaching Soviet

euros was eventually recovered, as they were allowed to reclaim the property they lost from the Soviet occupancy through family lawyers and the German government; none of the family ever returned to Thüringia.[1]

Later life

Elisabeth and Charles eventually separated, but were never officially divorced.[1] By this point, their children were all married and living away from home; consequently, Elisabeth was alone much of the time later in her life.[1] She lived quietly in Munich for the last fourteen years of her life to be near her daughter Princess Elisabeth.[1] Unlike her "more glamorous" children, Elisabeth largely stayed out of headlines during her lifetime.[1]

Though her son remarked that Elisabeth was "a fighter" after she recovered from an accident, the doctors gave her very little chance of survival; she died on 15 March 2010 at the age of 98 in Munich.

Wartburg Castle, where, according to her son, she had always had a very emotional bond and wanted it to be her final resting place.[citation needed
]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Hopkins, Robert (2 August 2010), "My 40-year friendship with Elisabeth, Germany's last grand duchess", The Telegraph, archived from the original on 6 October 2010, retrieved 11 October 2010
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