Antoinette Amalie Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel ( him. Antoinette Amalie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel ; April 22, 1696 , Wolfenbüttel - March 6, 1762 , Braunschweig ) - Duchess Braunschweig-Lüneburg , from the House of Welfsweig .
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| Predecessor | Christina Louise Ettingen | ||||||
| Successor | Philippines Charlotte of Prussia | ||||||
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| Burial place | Brunswick Cathedral | ||||||
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Antoinette Amalie was the youngest daughter of Duke Ludwig Rudolf Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and his wife Christina Louise Ettingen .
According to the matrimonial plans of their grandfather Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttelsky , her elder sisters Elizabeth Christine and Charlotte Christine were prepared to become the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire and the Russian Tsarina respectively. Antoinette Amalie decided to marry Anton Ulrich's nephew and her father's cousin to intermarry with the imperial houses of St. Petersburg and Vienna .
Princess Antoinette Amalie married Ferdinand Albrecht II of Brunswick-Bevernsk on October 15, 1712 in Brunswick . The marriage turned out to be very happy, the spouses had eight sons and seven daughters, who were brought up in the most modest conditions of her father’s house. After the death of the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the same year 1735, the husband of Antoinette Amalie died. Antoinette Amalie outlived her husband by 27 years.
Descendants
- Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1713–1780), Duke of Brunswick, married Philippine Charlotte Prussia
- Anton Ulrich of Brunswick (1714–1774)
- Elizaveta Christina of Brunswick (1715-1797), in 1733, married Frederick the Great , King of Prussia
- Ludwig Ernst Braunschweig-Luneburg-Bevernsky (1718-1788)
- August (1719-1720)
- Frederick (1719-1772)
- Ferdinand of Brunswick (1721-1792)
- Louise Amalia Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1722–1780), in 1742, married Augusta Wilhelm of Prussia , mother of the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm II
- Sofia Anthony (1724-1802), in 1749, married Duke Ernst Friedrich of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfel
- Albrecht (1725–1745), Major General of the Prussian Army
- Charlotte (1726−1766)
- Theresa Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1728–1778), Abbess of the Ganderheim Monastery
- Juliana Maria Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1729-1796), in 1752, married the King of Denmark, Frederick V (1723-1766)
- Friedrich Wilhelm (1731-1732)
- Friedrich Franz Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1732–1758), Major General of the Prussian Army
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 141678615 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ The Peerage
Literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm M. von Hahnke: Elisabeth Christine, Königin von Preußen, Gemahlin Friedrichs dem Großen. Eine Biographie. Reimer, Berlin 1848