Princess Augusta of Bavaria

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Princess of Venice
Grand Duchess of Frankfurt

Princess consort of Eichstätt

Tenure

14 November 1817 – 21 February 1824

Born

21 June 1788
Strasbourg, Kingdom of France

Died

13 May 1851 (aged 62)
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria

Spouse

Eugène de Beauharnais

(m. 1806; died 1824)

Issue

Names
Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt

Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (

Princess Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt

. By marriage, she was a French princess.

Early life

Augusta Amalia of Bavaria was the eldest daughter of

Charles Theodore

, Maximilian became count-elector, Palatine of the Rhine and Duke-Elector of Bavaria as Maximilian III.

Marriage and issue

Although promised in marriage to the heir of

Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais and stepson of Napoleon.^[1] In return, Napoleon raised Bavaria from a state to a Kingdom. Although a diplomatic marriage, this union would turn out to be a happy one. In 1817, Augusta's father named his son-in-law Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstädt, with the style Royal Highness

Augusta and Eugène had seven children:

Princess Joséphine Maximiliane Eugénie Napoléonne de Beauharnais (1807–1876); married Oscar I of Sweden, himself the son of Napoleon's old love, Désirée Clary.
Princess Eugénie Hortense Auguste de Beauharnais (1808–1847); married Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
Prince Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810–1835); married Maria II of Portugal. There was no issue from this marriage.
Princess Amélie Auguste Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais (31 July 1812 – 26 January 1873); married Pedro I of Brazil (father of Maria II of Portugal and Pedro II of Brazil) and became Empress of Brazil.
Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach
.
Princess Carolina Clotilde de Beauharnais (1816)
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, eldest daughter of Nicholas I of Russia and received the title of "Prince Romanovsky" with the style "Imperial Highness
" in 1852.

Death

Augusta had outlived her husband and three of her children by the time she died in 1851 at the age of 63 in Munich. At that time, France's president was her nephew Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the son of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, the sister of Prince Eugène.

Gallery

A young Princess Augusta.
Augusta's marriage to Eugène de Beauharnais, by
François Guillaume Menageot
Augusta with her daughters Joséphine and Eugénie
Tomb of Augusta of Bavaria

Honours

Kingdom of Portugal: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Isabel, 1 December 1834^[2]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Augusta of Bavaria

Countess Katharina Polyxena of Solms-Rödelheim

References

^ Abbott, J.S.C. (1856). Confidential Correspondence of The Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine: Including Letters from the Time of their Marriage until the Death of Josephine and also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to his Brother Joseph, and other Important Personages. New York: Mason Brothers. pp. 86–88.
^ Bragança, Jose Vicente de (2014). "Agraciamentos Portugueses Aos Príncipes da Casa Saxe-Coburgo-Gota" [Portuguese Honours awarded to Princes of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]. Pro Phalaris (in Portuguese). 9–10: 4. Retrieved 28 November 2019.

External links

Media related to Princess Augusta of Bavaria at Wikimedia Commons

German royalty
Princess Augusta of Bavaria House of Wittelsbach Born: 21 June 1788 Died: 13 May 1851
Preceded by None	Duchess of Leuchtenberg 1817–1824	Succeeded by Maria Nikolaevna of Russia

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