Princess Amalie | |
Full Name: | German: Amalie Antoinette Karoline Adrienne |
Princess Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg | |
Spouse: | Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg (m. 1835) |
Issue: | Princess Therese, Duchess of Dalarna Antoinette, Duchess of Anhalt Prince Ludwig Joseph Prince Johann Friedrich |
House: | Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |
Father: | Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |
Mother: | Marie Antoinette Murat |
Birth Date: | 30 April 1815 |
Birth Place: | Sigmaringen, Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |
Death Place: | Sigmaringen, Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |
Princess Amalie Antoinette Karoline Adrienne of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (German: Amalie Antoinette Karoline Adrienne, Prinzessin von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen; 30 April 1815, Sigmaringen, Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen - 14 January 1841,[1] Sigmaringen, Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and a Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen by birth. Through her marriage to Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, Amalie was also a member of the House of Saxe-Altenburg and Princess of Saxe-Altenburg. Amalie was a grand-niece of Joachim Murat, King of the Two Sicilies from 1808 to 1815 and a brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, through marriage to Napoleon's youngest sister, Caroline Bonaparte.
Amalie was the fourth and youngest child of Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and his first wife Marie Antoinette Murat.
Amalie married Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, seventh but fourth surviving son of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826) and Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on 25 July 1835 in Sigmaringen. Amalie and Eduard had four children: