Antoinette Amalie of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

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

Life

Antoinette Amalie was the youngest daughter of Duke Ludwig Rudolf von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and his wife Christine Luise von Öttingen .

Her older sisters Elisabeth Christine and Charlotte Christine were married by their grandfather Anton Ulrich in such a way that they were to become Empress and Russian Tsarina respectively. Antoinette Amalie was supposed to be the wife of Anton Ulrich's nephew and cousin of her father in order to achieve a marriage with the imperial families in Saint Petersburg and Vienna .

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

After her father became Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg in 1735, he died that same year and Antoinette Amalie's husband followed his father-in-law. In the same year the Duchess became a widow and outlived her husband by 27 years. She married her daughters Luise Amalie with Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Juliane Marie with King Friedrich V of Denmark. Her son Anton Ulrich married Princess Elisabeth Katharina Christine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

After the death of her husband, Antoinette Amalie lived in Antoinettenruh Castle in Wolfenbüttel, which her father Ludwig Rudolf had built for her as a summer residence. However, she died in Braunschweig. Since 1762, the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) has owned 1,313 volumes from their private library .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Jakobs: Antoinette Amalie, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (Wolfenbüttel). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 45-46 .
  2. ↑ Princely libraries of the 17th and 18th centuries - Duchess Antoinette Amalie (1696–1762) on hab.de.
personal data
SURNAME Antoinette Amalie of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antoinette Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Braunschweig-Bevern, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1762
Place of death Braunschweig