Margravine Auguste of Baden-Baden

Auguste Maria Johanna of Baden -Baden (* November 10, 1704 in Aschaffenburg, † August 8, 1726 in Paris) was by marriage Duchess of Orléans.

Life

Auguste Marie Johanna was the eighth of nine children of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden -Baden, Margrave Louis, and twenty years younger Princess Franziska Sibylla Augusta of Saxe- Lauenburg.

She married on 13 July 1724 in Sarry Duke Louis I of Orléans and gave him a son, Louis-Philippe, who succeeded his father as Duke. Three days after the birth of her second child, she died at the age of 21 in childbirth.

Progeny

• Louis -Philippe I d' Orléans ( born May 12, 1725 † November 18, 1785 ); 1752 Duke of Orléans
• Louise Marie d' Orléans ( * August 5, 1726, † May 14 1728 )