Emilie | |
Succession: | Princess consort of Anhalt-Köthen |
Reign: | 19 November 1728 – 20 February 1732 |
Spouse: | Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen |
Issue: | Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless |
Full Name: | Christine Johanna Emilie |
House: | Promnitz (by birth) Ascania (by marriage) |
Father: | Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz |
Mother: | Anna Maria of Saxe-Weissenfels |
Birth Date: | 15 September 1708 |
Birth Place: | Żary, Electorate of Saxony Holy Roman Empire |
Death Place: | Köthen, Anhalt-Köthen Holy Roman Empire |
Christine Johanna Emilie, Princess of Anhalt-Köthen (née Countess Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless; 15 September 1708 – 20 February 1732) was the second wife and consort of Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
Countess Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless was born on 15 September 1708 in Żary, to Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz and his wife, Princess Anna Maria of Saxe-Weissenfels (1683–1731), the third daughter of Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg.
On 14 January 1726, she married Prince Augustus Louis of Anhalt-Köthen in Żary. She was his second wife. His first wife, Agnes Wilhelmine von Wuthenau, with whom he was in a morganatic marriage, died in 1725.[1] Emilie and Augustus Louis had five children:[2] [3]
On 19 November 1728, her husband succeeded his brother, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, as the Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
Emilie died on 20 February 1732 in Köthen. Later that year, her husband married her sister, Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless.