Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg
Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen- Falkenburg - Dabo ( born March 16, 1729 Heidenheim (Pfalz ), † March 11, 1818 in Neustrelitz ); Princess called George, was heir to the rule Broich and by marriage Princess of Hesse -Darmstadt. She was the grandmother and governess of the later Prussian Queen Luise.
Life
Maria Luise Albertine was a daughter of Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen- Dagsburg (1695-1766) and his wife Countess Katharina Polyxena of Solms- Roedelheim ( 1702-1765 ). When her father's death she was heiress to the rule Broich and began the architect Nicolas de Pigage the restoration and expansion of the Castle Broich. 1806, the government was dissolved by Napoleon in 1815 and annexed by Prussia.
She married on 16 March 1748 in Heidenheim Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hesse- Darmstadt, the brother of the reigning Landgrave Ludwig IX. of Hesse- Darmstadt. Since Louis IX. almost exclusively resided in Pirmasens, it was responsible for the death of his wife in 1774, the representation of the country in the residence in Darmstadt.
Her daughters Friederike and Charlotte had died as first and second wife of Prince Charles of Mecklenburg -Strelitz in childbirth. Karl then ended his service as governor of Hanover and moved to Darmstadt with the children to his mother. Princess George was widowed since 1782 and took on the task of education and care of children.
Only Charlotte made this move not. She was 16 years old married to the Duke of Saxe- Hildburghausen. The father was talking with his two sons often at his eldest daughter in Hildburghausen on and settled in 1787, after he became president of the local imperial debit Commission, all there to. This is how Mary Louise cared primarily with indigenous educational methods to Luise and Friederike Therese and her sisters, which they market a salvaged and largely informal home offered in Darmstadt "Old Palace ".
1790 she traveled with Luise Friederike and Georg Kaiser coronation of Leopold II in Frankfurt am Main and lived here at Catharina Elisabeth Goethe. An educational trip to Holland joined in 1791. 1792 she fled with the children in front of the advancing French army from Darmstadt to Hildburghausen to her granddaughter Charlotte, where they remained until March 1793. On the way back to Darmstadt, she traveled via Frankfurt, where the first meeting of Luise with her future husband, Frederick William had been arranged. 1793 she accompanied Luise and Friederike to their wedding to Berlin.
Mary Louise is described as a magnificent person, warm hearted, cheerful all the time and basically Palatinate dialect speaking. The closeness and warmth she has passed on as a substitute mother during the formative years of her granddaughters to this.
Progeny
- Ludwig Georg Karl (1749-1823) ∞ ( morganatic ) 1788 Friederike Schmidt, "Dame of Hessenheim " ( 1751-1803 )
- Georg Friedrich (1750-1750)
- Friederike Caroline Luise (1752-1782) ∞ 1768 Prince Charles of Mecklenburg -Strelitz
- George Karl (1754-1830)
- Charlotte Wilhelmine Christiane Marie (1755-1785) ∞ 1784 Prince Charles of Mecklenburg -Strelitz
- Karl Wilhelm Georg (1757-1797)
- Georg Friedrich August (1759-1808) ∞ ( morganatic ) 1788 Karoline Luise Salome Seitz, " wife of Frederick " ( 1768-1812 )
- Luise Henriette Karoline (1761-1829) ∞ 1777 Landgraf Ludwig X of Hesse-Darmstadt, as Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine in 1806 ( 1753-1830 )
- Auguste Wilhelmine Maria (1765-1796) ∞ 1785 Maximilian I, King of Bavaria nachmaliger