Sophia Henriette von Waldeck

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duchess Sophia Henriette of Saxony-Hildburghausen

Sophia Henriette von Waldeck (born August 3, 1662 in Arolsen , † October 15, 1702 in Erbach ) was Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen .

Life

Sophia Henriette was a daughter of the Prince and Field Marshal General Georg Friedrich zu Waldeck and his wife, Countess Elisabeth Charlotte von Nassau-Siegen (1626-1694). It thus came from the Waldeck family .

On November 30, 1680, she married Duke Ernst von Sachsen-Hildburghausen in Arolsen , a friend and comrade of her father, with whom she lived in Arolsen until 1683. After the completion of the castle in Hildburghausen, the couple resided there. Sophie Henriette had a very close relationship with her eldest son. She initiated his marriage to her cousin's daughter . The duchess died before the wedding in 1702 at Erbach Castle, ten days after she had given birth to her youngest son. She was the first to be buried in the new princely crypt under the castle church.

Sophia Henriette's father died in 1692, leaving no male heirs. Waldeck fell to the Wildungen line, but the three daughters of Prince Georg Friedrich were inherited by the Geldern county of Cuylenburg (Crölsburg). After the death of Sophia Henriettes older sister Luise Anna (1653-1714), Sophia Henriettes eldest son Ernst Friedrich was heir of the county, which he sold to the Netherlands in 1720 .

progeny

literature

  • Heinrich Ferdinand Schoeppl: The dukes of Saxony-Altenburg. Bozen 1917, reprint Altenburg 1992
  • Rudolf Armin Human: Chronicle of the city of Hildburghausen , Hildburghausen 1886
personal data
SURNAME Sophia Henriette von Waldeck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sophia Henriette von Waldeck-Eisenberg; Sophia Henriette of Saxe-Hildburghausen; Sophie Henriette von Waldeck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1702
Place of death Erbach