Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Louise Amalie of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel ( born January 29 in 1722 in Wolfenbüttel, † January 13, 1780 in Berlin) was Princess of Prussia and wife of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia.

Life

Luise Amalie was the daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel - Bevern and his wife Princess Antoinette Amalie of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel. The father's farm was very modest for the prevailing conditions, but Luise Amalie spent a happy childhood at Castle Salzdahlum. Her sister Elisabeth Christine married in 1733 Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, the later King Frederick II while she was married on January 6, 1742 his brother August Wilhelm. With this second marriage of the ( now deceased ) " soldier king " Friedrich Wilhelm I. had tried to prove his loyalty to the imperial house in Vienna. Since Frederick was childless, was her husband as the successor of the king, which made them de facto Crown Princess of Prussia. As such, the couple led in 1744 the title of Princess and Prince of Prussia.

On September 25, 1744 was the first son of Luise Amalie to the world, Friedrich Wilhelm, who has now been declared to the Crown Prince of Prussia and already separated with three years of his parents, to the king's court in Berlin to the office of the king after the death of his to be prepared father and uncle. In 1747 he left the parental lock in Oranienburg what his mother was very sorry. The husband Luise Amalie was a good-natured and soft character. However, the marriage designed rather unhappy. August Wilhelm asked his brother to separate the marriage so he could marry the maid of honor Sophie Marie von Pannwitz what Frederick II refused. August Wilhelm eventually fought for his brother as a general in the Silesian wars, but suffered in the Battle of Kolin on June 18, 1757 a terrible defeat. His brother - the king - then humiliated him deeply, so they say, August Wilhelm was " pure Genanz " ( because he was so embarrassed ) died on 12 June 1758.

Luise Amalie went to live alone with her servants at Schloss Oranienburg, until she died in Berlin in 1780. Their son Frederick William after the death of Frederick II ascended the Prussian throne as King Frederick William II, what neither his mother nor his father still lived.

Progeny

  • Frederick William II (1744-1797)
  • Friedrich Heinrich Karl (1747-1767)
  • Wilhelmine (1751-1820); William V ∞, governor of the Netherlands
  • Georg Karl Emil (1758-1759)
  • Guelph (New Brunswick House )
  • Born in 1722
  • Died in 1780
  • Woman
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