Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen
Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen | |
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Landgravine of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld | |
Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal |
Princess Wilhelmina Louise Christine of Saxe-Meiningen (6 August 1752 – 3 June 1805) was a Duchess of
Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
.
Life
Louise was a daughter of Duke
Charlotte Amalie (1730 - 1801), daughter of the Landgrave Charles I of Hesse-Philippsthal
.
Louise married on 18 October 1781 in Meiningen to Landgrave
Charles William of Saxe-Meiningen, concluded with Landgrave Adolph, it was stipulated that his future wife is the sole guardian of her underage children and administrator of their assets. After Adolph died in 1803, Louise presented this contract to the Reichskammergericht
and this court confirmed her guardianship over her three sons.
Issue
From her marriage Louise had the following children:
- Frederick (1782-1783)
- Charles (1784-1854), Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld, married
- in 1816 to Princess Auguste of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1793-1821)
- in 1823 to Princess Sophie of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1794-1873)
- Juliane Sophie of Denmark(1788-1850)
- George (1787-1788)
- Ernest Frederick (1789-1850); never married
- Charlotte (1794-1794)
References
- Pauline Puppel: Die Regentin: vormundschaftliche Herrschaft in Hessen 1500-1700, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, p. 47 (Online)