Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld explained

Consort:yes
Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Succession:Queen consort of Saxony
Reign:20 December 1806 –
Succession1:Duchess consort of Warsaw
Reign1:9 June 1807 –
Succession2:Electress consort of Saxony
Reign2:29 January 1769 –
Issue:Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony
Full Name:Maria Amalie Auguste
House:House of Wittelsbach
House of Wettin
Father:Frederick Michael of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Mother:Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach
Birth Date:10 May 1752
Birth Place:Mannheim
Place Of Burial:Hofkirche, Dresden

Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (Maria Amalie Auguste; 10 May 1752  - 15 November 1828) was the last Electress and first Queen of Saxony and Duchess of Warsaw.

Biography

Amalie was born in Mannheim, the daughter of Count Palatine Frederick Michael of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler and his wife, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Pfalz-Sulzbach. She was the sister of Maximilian Joseph, later first King of Bavaria.

On 29 January 1769 she married the Saxon Elector Frederick Augustus III. In 1806, the Electress and her husband were proclaimed the first King and Queen of Saxony. The following year, Napoleon I made them Duke and Duchess of Warsaw, a newly created principality in Poland.

Amalie bore four children, three of whom were stillborn. Only one daughter, Princess Maria Augusta, attained adulthood, but remained unmarried.From 1804, at the death of her sister-in-law Carolina of Parma, she and her other sister-in-law, Maria Theresa of Austria, shared the responsibility of raising the former's children, something they are said to have done very strictly.[1]

Amalie died on 15 November 1828 at the age of 76, and was buried in the Hofkirche in Dresden.

Issue

  1. unnamed child (born/died 1771)
  2. unnamed child (born/died 1775)
  3. Maria Augusta Nepomucena Antonia Francisca Xaveria Aloysia (born Dresden 21 June 1782 - died Dresden 14 March 1863)
  4. unnamed child (born/died 1797)

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Notes and References

  1. Justin C. Vovk: In Destiny's Hands: Five Tragic Rulers, Children of Maria Theresa (2010)