Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen

Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen ( born March 30, 1671 at Oettingen, † November 12, 1747 in Blankenburg ) was Princess of Oettingen - Oettingen and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Princess of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel and Princess of Blankenburg.

Life

Christine Louise was a daughter of Albrecht Ernst I of Oettingen - Oettingen (1642-1683), who was raised in 1674 in the imperial princes, and his wife Duchess Christine Frederica of Württemberg ( 1644-1674 ).

The princess married on 22 April 1690 in Aurich Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel. Christine Louise resided with her husband in Blankenburg, which was awarded to him as appanage from his father. The county Blankenburg in 1707 charged by Emperor Joseph I to the principality after Christine Luise's daughter as a bride of the later to become Emperor Charles VI. was chosen.

In Blankenburg Ludwig Rudolf and Christine Luise unfolded an elaborate court life, where Christine Luise had an influence on her husband in political and human issues. In her honor he built on the Calvinusberg 1728 is a small gazebo. 1735, she returned to her husband's death from Braunschweig to Blankenburg, which it promoted cultural and ensured the maintenance and expansion of the castle. At Schloss Blankenburg they employed the after Katte affair disgraced former tutor of the Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, Jacques Égide Duhan de Jandun, which was brought back by Friedrich after the death of his father back to the Prussian court.

Christine had from her marriage to Ludwig Rudolf four daughters, three of whom reached adulthood. These are sent to married by her father Anton Ulrich, so that Christine Luise grandmother both of Empress Maria Theresa, the Tsar Peter II, as well as the Prussian Queen Elisabeth Christine and the Danish Queen Juliane was.

Christine Luise was buried at her husband's side in the cathedral of Brunswick.

Progeny

  • Elisabeth Christine (1691-1750) ∞ 1708 Emperor Charles VI. ( HRR )
  • Charlotte Auguste (1692-1692)
  • Charlotte Christine Sofie (1694-1715) ∞ 1711 Tsarevich Alexei of Russia
  • Antoinette Amalie (1696-1762) ∞ 1712 Duke Ferdinand Albrecht II of Brunswick and Lüneburg
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