Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau explained

Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau
Full Name:German: link=no|Amalie Auguste
Reign:15 April 1816 – 12 June 1854
Consort:yes
Succession:Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Spouse:Frederick Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Issue:Prince Frederick Günther
Prince Günther
Prince Gustav
House:Ascania
Father:Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
Mother:Amalie of Hesse-Homburg
Birth Date:1793 8, df=y
Birth Place:Dessau, Anhalt, Holy Roman Empire
Death Place:Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Place Of Burial:Rudolstadt

Princess Amalie Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau (German: link=no|Prinzessin Amalie Auguste [[von]] [[Anhalt-Dessau]]; 18 August 1793 – 12 June 1854) was a German princess of Anhalt-Dessau who was Princess consort of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt from 1816 to 1854 as the wife of Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

Early life

Auguste was born on 18 August 1793 in Dessau as the eldest child of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and his wife, Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Homburg (daughter of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg).

Marriage and issue

On 15 April 1816 she was married in Dessau to her first cousin, Frederick Günther, reigning Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (son of Louis Frederick II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and his wife, Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Homburg). They had three sons:

Death

Princess Auguste died on 12 June 1854 in Rudolstadt. Her widower, Prince Frederick Günther, remarried her own niece, Countess Helene of Reina (1835–1860), morganatic daughter of her brother George in 1855.

Her younger brother ruled the unified duchy of Anhalt from 1863 until his death in 1871 as Leopold IV.

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