Princess Auguste Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt

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Princess Auguste Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt
Duchess of Zweibrücken
Portrait by Johann Friedrich Dryander, 1790.
Duchess consort of Zweibrücken
Tenure 1 April 1795 – 30 March 1796
Born (1765-04-14)14 April 1765
Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt
Died 30 March 1796(1796-03-30) (aged 30)
Rohrbach, Electoral Palatinate
Spouse Maximilian, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (m 30 September 1785)
Issue Ludwig I, King of Bavaria
Princess Auguste, Duchess of Leuchtenberg
Princess Amalie
Karoline Auguste, Empress of Austria
Prince Karl Theodor
Full name
Auguste Wilhelmine Marie
House Hesse-Darmstadt
Father Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt
Mother Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg
Burial Schlosskirche, Darmstadt

Princess Auguste Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (Auguste Wilhelmine Marie ; 4 April 1765  – 30 March 1796) was Duchess consort of Zweibrücken by marriage to Maximilian, Duke of Zweibrücken and the mother of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.



Marriage[edit]

On 30 September 1785, she married Maximilian, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (later King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria).



Issue[edit]

  1. Ludwig I of Bavaria (25 August 1786 – 29 February 1868) married Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
  2. Princess Auguste of Bavaria, (21 June 1788 – 13 May 1851) married Eugène de Beauharnais, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg.
  3. Princess Amalie Marie Auguste (9 October 1790 – 24 January 1794), died in childhood.
  4. Princess Caroline Augusta (8 February 1792 – 9 February 1873) married William I of Württemberg, and then Francis II of Austria.
  5. Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria (7 July 1795 – 16 August 1875) married Marie-Anne-Sophie Petin morganatically.