Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg explained

Full Name:Adelaide Louise
German: Adelheid Luise
Princess of Solms-Baruth
House:Glücksburg
Spouse:Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth
Issue:Countess Friederike Luise
Feodore, Princess of Aursperg
Countess Rosa
Friedrich, 4th Prince of Solms-Baruth
Countess Caroline Mathilde
Birth Date:19 October 1889
Birth Place:Grünholz, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death Place:Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Father:Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
Mother:Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

Princess Adelaide Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (German: Adelheid Luise; 19 October 1889  - 11 June 1964) was a daughter of Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.[1]

She was the Princess consort of Solms-Baruth through her marriage to Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth.

Early life

Princess Adelaide was born on 19 October 1889 at Grünholz Manor in Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia as the fourth eldest daughter of Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbug-Glücksburg and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

Adelaide's father was the eldest son of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and a nephew of Christian IX of Denmark. Four years before the birth of Adelaide, he had succeeded to the headship of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and the title of duke upon the death of his father in 1885. Adelaide's mother was the younger sister of the German Empress.

Marriage

Adelaide married Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Solms-Baruth (later Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth), second child and eldest son of Friedrich II, Prince of Solms-Baruth and his wife Countess Luise of Hochberg on 1 August 1914 at Potsdam, Brandenburg, Prussia. Solms-Baruth was one of the many minor states of the Holy Roman Empire, located in Lower Lusatia. It had lost its independence in the German Mediatization of 1806.

Adelaide and Friedrich had five children.

Later life

On 31 December 1920, Hereditary Prince Friedrich's father died, and Friedrich became head of the house of Solms-Baruth.

Prince Friedrich died on 12 September 1951 in Windhoek, Namibia. Princess Adelaide died on 11 June 1964 in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Issue

∞ Gert Schenk on 23 November 1942, widowed

∞ Karl-Adolf, 10th Prince of Auersperg (great-grandson of Prince Adolf of Auersperg) on 6 October 1961 at Vienna, Austria

Neville Lewis on 3 November 1955 at Stellenbosch, South Africa, widowed

∞ Heinrich Weber on 9 October 1981 at Stellenbosch, South Africa

∞ Baroness Birgitta of Berchem-Königsfeld on 17 August 1963 at Dabib, South West Africa

∞ Johann van Steenderen on 12 May 1963

Notes and References

  1. Book: Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et . The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe . 1914 . Burke's Peerage . 978-0-85011-028-9 . 180 . en.