Duchess Sophie Adelheid in Bavaria

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Duchess Sophie Adelheid
Countess of Toerring-Jettenbach
Prinzessin Sophie Adelheid in Bayern.jpg
Born(1875-02-22)22 February 1875
Possenhofen, Bavaria
Died4 September 1957(1957-09-04) (aged 82)
Kreuth, Germany
SpouseHans Veit, Count of Toerring-Jettenbach
IssueCarl Theodor, Count of Toerring-Jettenbach
Countess Antonia, Mrs. Woerner
Count Hans Heribert
Names
German: Sophie Adelheid Ludovika Maria Herzogin in Bayern
HouseWittelsbach
FatherKarl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria
MotherInfanta Maria Josepha of Portugal

Duchess Sophie in Bavaria (German: Sophie Adelheid Ludovika Maria Herzogin in Bayern; 22 February 1875 in Possenhofen, Bavaria – 4 September 1957 in Kreuth, Germany).[1]

Biography[]

Family[]

Duchess Sophie Adelheid in Bavaria with her family, 1910s

Her parents were Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, head of a cadet branch of the Bavarian royal family, and an ophthalmologist of recognized reputation, and his second wife, the Infanta Maria José of Braganza, third daughter of King Miguel I, exiled monarch of Portugal.[1] Her paternal aunt was Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi). She was also the sister of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, consort of Albert I and of Marie Gabrielle, wife of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, later the head of the House of Wittelsbach.[1] She was named after her father's first wife, Princess Sophie of Saxony, the mother of her half-sister Amalie.

Marriage and issue[]

On 26 July 1898 in Bavaria's capital, Munich, Sophie Adelheid married Count Hans Veit (Augsburg, 7 April 1862 – Munich, 29 October 1929), head of the mediatized House of Toerring-Jettenbach.[1] They had three children, nine grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren and eighteen great-great-grandchildren:[1]

  • Count Carl Theodor of Toerring-Jettenbach (22 September 1900 – 14 May 1967) he married Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark on 10 January 1934. They have two children, six grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
  • Countess Marie José Antonia of Toerring-Jettenbach (16 June 1902 – 18 June 1988) she married Anton Woerner on 9 April 1927. They have two daughters, two granddaughters and two great-grandchildren:
    • Eleonore Woerner (1927-2005) she married Germanus Lins in 1955. They have two daughters and three grandsons
      • Helen Lins (1956) she married Prince Krafft Ernst of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein in 1981.
        • Prince Philipp-Carl of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein (1983)
        • Prince Leopold-Ludwig of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein (1987)
      • Maria Lins (1959) she married Paulo Amorim and they were later divorced. She has an illegitimate son:
        • Tassilo Lins (1994)
    • Marita Antonia Woerner (1930)
  • Count Hans Heribert of Toerring-Jettenbach (25 December 1903 – 16 March 1977) he married Viktoria Lindpaintner on 19 October 1938 and they were divorced on 23 October 1947. He remarried to Countess Maria Immaculata of Bassenheim (27 July 1921 – 7 September 2020) (daughter of Archduchess Maria Alice of Austria, daughter of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen) on 10 December 1947. They have five children and five grandchildren.

Ancestry[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XVI. "Toerring-Jettenbach". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2001, pp. 4, 375-378. (German) ISBN 978-3-7980-0824-3.
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