Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
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Princess Adelheid | |
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Duchess Paul Frederick Augustus of Oldenburg | |
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Born | Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate | 23 February 1800
Died | 13 September 1820 Oldenburg | (aged 20)
Spouse | |
Issue | Amalia, Queen of Greece Friederike, Baroness von Washington |
House | Ascania |
Father | Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym |
Mother | Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg |
Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (German: Prinzessin Adelheid von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym; 23 February 1800 – 13 September 1820) was a princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym by birth as a daughter of Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. As the wife of Duke Paul Frederick Augustus of Oldenburg she became a Duchess of Oldenburg by marriage.
Birth and family[]
Princess Adelheid was born on 23 February 1800 at Schaumburg Castle. She was the second daughter of Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Princess Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg. Adelheid had three sisters: Hermine, Emma, and Ida. She grew up with her sisters in Hoym in Anhalt.
Marriage[]
Adelheid married Duke Paul Frederick Augustus of Oldenburg on 24 July 1817 at Schaumburg Castle. The princess was just 17 years old when she married the 34-year-old duke. Duke Paul Frederick Augustus was the eldest son of Duke Peter of Oldenburg, heir to the Duchy of Oldenburg, and was thus second in line of succession after his father.
Adelheid and Augustus had two daughters; Amalia, who was born in 1818 an later married Prince Otto of Bavaria, the elected King of Greece, and thus became Queen consort of Greece; and Friederike , who was born in 1820 and later married Maximilian Emanuel, Baron von Washington, the son of Baron Jakob von Washington and Antonie von Verger, godson of King Maximilian I of Bavaria and distant relative of the first President of the United States George Washington.
Death[]
At the age of 20 and after three years of marriage, Princess Adelheid died suddenly on 13 September 1820 at Oldenburg.
In 1825, after five years of widowhood, Augustus married Adelheid's younger sister, Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. Augustus became Grand Duke of Oldenburg in 1829.
Ancestry and descent[]
Ancestry[]
showAncestors of Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym |
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Issue[]
Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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Duchess Amalia | 21 December 1818 | 20 May 1875 | married Otto of Bavaria, the elected King of Greece, and thus became Queen consort of Greece. |
Duchess Frederica | 8 June 1820 | 20 March 1891 | married the son of Jakob von Washington, a distant relative of the first President of the United States George Washington. |
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- 1800 births
- 1820 deaths
- Deaths in childbirth
- House of Ascania
- House of Oldenburg in Oldenburg
- House of Holstein-Gottorp