Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Antoinette Amalie of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel ( born April 22, 1696 Wolfenbüttel; † March 6, 1762 in Braunschweig ) was a member of the House Guelph and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg and Duchess of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel.

Life

Antoinette Amalie was the youngest daughter of Duke Louis Rudolph of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel and his wife Christine Louise of Oettingen.

Her older sisters Elisabeth Christine and Charlotte Christine were married by her grandfather Anton Ulrich so that they should be empress or empress of Russia. Antoinette Amalie was to achieve an intermarriage with the imperial families in Saint Petersburg and Vienna, provided as the wife of Anton Ulrich's nephew and cousin of her father.

The princess married on October 15, 1712 in Braunschweig Duke Ferdinand Albrecht II of Brunswick - Bevern. The marriage was a very happy and Antoinette Amalie was the mother of eight sons and six daughters, she had to raise her father's court under more modest circumstances. Antoinette Amalie had developed after the death of Duke August Wilhelm (1731 ) a friendly relationship to the Prussian Queen Sophie Dorothea and her daughter Wilhelmine. Two of her children were married in 1733 on a double wedding with members of the Prussian court. Her daughter, Elisabeth Christine married Frederick II and her son Charles the Prussian Princess Charlotte.

After her father had become Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg in 1735, he died in the same year and Antoinette Amalie's husband succeeded his father in law. Already in the same year was the Dowager Duchess and survived her husband by 27 years. They married their daughters Luise Amalie Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Juliane Marie with King Frederick V of Denmark. Your son Anton Ulrich married the Princess Elisabeth Katharina Christine of Mecklenburg -Schwerin.

Antoinette Amalie lived after the death of her husband in Antoinettenruh palace in Wolfenbüttel, her father Rudolf Ludwig had built for her as a summer residence. However, they died in Braunschweig. Since 1762 there are 1313 books from their private library owned by the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB ).

Progeny

  • Charles I (1713-1780), Duke of Brunswick
  • Anton Ulrich (1714-1776)
  • Elisabeth Christine (1715-1797) ∞ 1733 Frederick II, King of Prussia
  • Ludwig Ernst (1718-1788)
  • August (1719-1720)
  • Ferdinand (1721-1792)
  • Luise Amalie (1722-1780) ∞ 1742 August Wilhelm of Prussia
  • Sophie Antonie (1724-1802) ∞ 1749 Duke Ernst Friedrich of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld
  • Albrecht (1725-1745)
  • Charlotte Christine Louise (1726-1766), Dean of the Quedlinburg
  • Therese Natalie (1728-1778), Abbess of Gander Home
  • Juliane Marie (1729-1796) ∞ 1752 King Frederick V of Denmark ( 1723-1766 )
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (1731-1732)
  • Friedrich Franz (1732-1758)
Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen Sophia Dorothea of Hanover Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Integrated Authority File
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