Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld
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| Princess Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen | |||||
| Died | 3 September 1948 (aged 78) Detmold, British occupation zone in Germany | ||||
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Countess Karoline of Wartensleben | |||||
Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld (22 June 1870 – 3 September 1948) was the eldest child of
Karoline of Wartensleben.[citation needed
]
Family and early life
Adelaide was born on 22 June 1870 to
Countess Karoline of Wartensleben
.
After the death of
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
was chosen, but a court-settlement allowed Ernest to become the regent of Lippe-Detmold on 17 July 1897.
Marriage and issue
At
Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen on 24 April 1889.[1]
They had the following children together:
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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| Feodora Karola Charlotte Marie Adelaide Auguste Mathilde | 29 May 1890 | 12 March 1972 | married on 21 January 1910 to Wilhelm Ernst, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach .
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| Adelaide Erna Karoline Marie Elisabeth | 16 August 1891 | 25 April 1971 | married on 3 August 1914 to Prince Adalbert of Prussia. |
| Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen | 11 October 1892[1] | 6 January 1946 | Died as a Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of Crown Prince Otto of Austria .
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| Ernst Leopold Friedrich Wilhelm Otto | 23 September 1895[1] | 17 August 1914 | Killed in action, near Maubeuge, France |
| Luise Marie Elisabeth Mathilde Helene Katharine | 13 March 1899 | 14 February 1985 | married on 25 October 1936 to Baron Götz von Wangenheim |
| Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen | 30 June 1901 | 4 October 1984 | married firstly Margot Grössler ( morganatic ) and secondly Baroness Vera Schäffer von Bernstein (equal marriage)
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Role in Lippe succession dispute
Two branches of the
Lippe-Detmold.[2]
As Adelaide's great-grandmother was a member of the lower nobility, her family's claim to full royalty was challenged.[2] This claim threatened the succession to Saxe-Meiningen, as Adelaide was married to the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen's heir apparent; were her father deemed a lesser royal status, it might be thought that her own claim was not equal enough for her husband's family.[3]
Ancestry
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References
- ^ a b c Paxton, John (1900). The Statesman's year-book, Volume 37. London: Macmillan and Co. p. 685.
- ^ a b "No Title" (PDF), The New York Times, Berlin, 8 October 1904
- ^ "The Kaiser and the Lippes" (PDF), The New York Times, Berlin, 26 July 1898