Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz
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| Princess William of Hesse-Kassel | |
Maurice William, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz | |
| Mother | Marie Amalie of Brandenburg |
Duchess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (20 March 1691 – 17 March 1743) was a duchess of
Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel
.
Life
Dorothea Wilhelmine was a daughter of the Duke
Frederick William I of Brandenburg. By 1710 all her siblings had died and so, after her father's death Dorothea Wilhelmine was the last surviving member of the house of Saxe-Zeitz
.
She married on 27 September 1717 in
Duchess of Orleans
, the Landgravine "was ugly and had a weird head".
Dorothea Wilhelmine became mentally ill and no longer appeared in public after 1725. The new first lady at court was the Landgrave's favorite Barbara Christine von Bernhold whom he made Countess Bernold of Eschau while Dorothea Wilhelmine was still alive.
Issue
From their marriage, Dorothea Wilhelmine had the following children:
- Charles (1718–1719)
- Frederick II (1720–1785), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- married 1740 Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723–1772)
- Maria Amalia (1721–1744), she died while engaged to be married with Margrave Charles Frederick Albert of Brandenburg-Schwedt
References
- Carl Eduard Vehse: Geschichte der deutschen Höfe seit der Reformation p. 152 ff
External links
- http://www.vhghessen.de/inhalt/zhg/ZHG_106/04_Loewenstein_Hofhaltung.pdf (PDF file, 56 kB)
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