Emilie of Promnitz-Pless explained

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.

Biography

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Morganatic and Unequal Marriages in German Law. Heraldica.org. 21 June 2019.
  2. Web site: I233776: August Ludwig Fuerst v.Anhalt-Köthen. https://archive.today/20121217223738/http://wwperson.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/l3/LANG=engl/F=August@Ludwig/N=v.Anhalt-K%C3%B6then/Q=D:6.8.1755. dead. 17 December 2012. 17 December 2012. Archive.is. 21 June 2019.
  3. Web site: Ascania 9. Genealogy.euweb.cz. 21 June 2019.