Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis

Duchess Maria Augusta von Württemberg, born Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis ( born August 11, 1706 Frankfurt am Main, † February 1, 1756 in Göppingen) was the wife of Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg.

Life

Maria Augusta was the daughter of Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis, she spent her first eighteen years of life in the first Spanish, Austrian Netherlands from 1714. With her ​​family she moved in 1724 to Frankfurt, where was the headquarters of the Imperial Imperial post.

On May 1, 1727, she married the imperial field marshal and governor of the Kingdom of Serbia Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg.

They had three sons and a daughter over the years, but was already at the age of thirty years a widow and had to struggle in the aftermath with the policy of regional elites, who had already refused to hand her husband. The guardianship of her son Carl Eugen, the throne successor to the Duchy of Württemberg, was controversial. In the disputes they initially represented a strict imperial course, but a radical change occurred in 1737 with an orientation to Prussia. In this way they reached in November 1737 a settlement with the administrator Duke Carl Rudolf von Württemberg- New city, thus securing their financial livelihood as well as their influence on the education of their children. In 1741 it was a named after her Württemberg's Dragoon Regiment to the Prussian army, which led them since 1734. 1741 she was awarded the Prussian Black Eagle awarded, in 1745 she was admitted to the Brandenburg- kulmbachischen Red Eagle, in the same year in the Russian Katharine north. In order to prevent the influence of Prussia Frederick the Great on their sons out of hand, she ran the premature declaration of consent of her son Carl Eugen. But in 1750, they got into a heated argument with her now ruling son, so this made ​​them take custody and she spent her last years screened in Göppingen Castle.

Progeny

The children of Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and Duchess Maria Augusta von Württemberg were:

  • Carl Eugen (1728-1793)
  • Eugen Ludwig ( * / † 1729 )
  • Ludwig Eugen (1731-1795)
  • Friedrich Eugen (1732-1797)
  • Alexander (1733-1734)
  • Elisabeth Auguste (1734-1787) ∞ with Karl Anselm of Thurn and Taxis
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