Alexandra Amalia Bavarian ( German: Alexandra Amalie von Bayern ; August 26, 1826 , Aschaffenburg - September 21, 1875 , Munich ) is a German princess from the house of Wittelsbach , daughter of the King of Bavaria, Ludwig I and his wife Teresa Saxe-Gildburghausen . She devoted her life to literature.
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Biography
Princess Alexandra never married. Instead, she became the abbess of St. Anne's female religious community in Munich and Würzburg . In 1850, the hands of Alexandra were requested by the French prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte , nephew of Emperor Napoleon I. King Ludwig I politely refused the prince, citing Alexandra's poor health.
In 1852, Alexandra began her literary career. Her first book was The Christmas Rose. In 1856, the next book, Wildflowers, was published. The princess donated money from the book to orphanages. In the following years, several more books appeared about the biography of her family. In 1862, Alexandra translated into German some of the novels of Eugenia Foa. In subsequent years, the princess actively published books for children. Despite her literary achievements, the princess suffered from various psychological oddities, for example, she always wore only white clothes. She died on September 21, 1875 . Buried in the crypt of the Wittelsbach in Munich .
Pedigree
| 8. Friedrich Pfalz-Zweibrucken-Birkenfeld | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. Maximilian I (King of Bavaria) | ||||||||||||||||
| 9. Maria Francis Dorothea of the Palatinate-Sulzbach | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. Ludwig I (King of Bavaria) | ||||||||||||||||
| 10. Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt | ||||||||||||||||
| 5. Augustus Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt | ||||||||||||||||
| 11. Maria Louise Albertina Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. Princess Alexandra of Bavaria | ||||||||||||||||
| 12. Ernst Friedrich III Saxe-Guildburghausen | ||||||||||||||||
| 6. Friedrich Saxe-Guildburghausen | ||||||||||||||||
| 13. Ernestine Augustus Sofia Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. Teresa Saxe-Guildburghausen | ||||||||||||||||
| 14. Charles II Mecklenburg-Strelitzky | ||||||||||||||||
| 7. Charlotte Mecklenburg-Strelitzkaya (1769-1818) | ||||||||||||||||
| 15. Frederic of Hesse-Darmstadt (1752-1782) | ||||||||||||||||
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage - 717826 copies.