Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg

Princess Amélie Louise Julie of Arenberg, (full German name: Amalie Luise Julie, Prinzessin und Herzogin von Arenberg and full French name: Amélie Louise, princesse et duchesse d'Arenberg, (born 10 April 1789 in Brussels, Austrian Netherlands; died 4 April 1823 in Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria) was a member of the House of Arenberg by birth and, through her marriage to Duke Pius August in Bavaria, a member of the Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen line of the House of Wittelsbach. Amélie Louise was a grandmother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria through her son Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria.

Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg
Duchess in Bavaria
Born(1789-04-10)10 April 1789
Brussels, Austrian Netherlands
Died4 April 1823(1823-04-04) (aged 33)
Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1807)
IssueDuke Maximilian Joseph
Names
French: Amélie-Louise Julie
HouseArenberg
FatherPrince Louis of Arenberg
MotherMarie de Mailly-Nesle, Dame d'Ivry-sur-Seine

Early life

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Born in Brussels, Austrian Netherlands, Amélie Louise Julie was the only daughter of Prince Louis Marie Eugène of Arenberg (1757–1795) and his first wife, Marie Adélaïde Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Dame d'Ivry-sur-Seine (1766–1789). She had a half-sister, Princess Catherine Marie Louise Francoise of Arenberg (1792-1794), from her father's second marriage to Princess Elisabeth Shakhovskoy (1773-1796), member of the Russian nobility.[1] Amélie paternal grandparents were Charles Marie Raymond, 5th Duke of Arenberg and his wife, Countess Louise Margarethe von der Marck-Schleiden (1730-1820). Her maternal grandparents were Louis Joseph de Mailly-Nesle, Prince d'Orange and Neuchâtel (1744-1810) and his wife, Adélaide Julie de Hautefort, Mademoiselle de Montignac (1743-1783). The notorious Mailly-Nesle sisters, Pauline Félicité, Louise Julie and Diane Adélaïde, mistresses of King Louis XV were among her mother's cousins.[2]

Marriage and issue

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Amélie Louise married Duke Pius August in Bavaria, son of Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria and his wife Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, on 26 May 1807 in Brussels. Pius August and Amélie Louise had one son:

After their marriage, the couple moved to Bamberg and their son Maximilian Joseph was born the following year. In 1817, Amélie Louise sent her only son to reside with his great uncle Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, where he studied at the Royal Institute of Education. Amélie Louise did not see him until 1820. Shortly after returning from her second visit to Munich, Amélie Louise died in 1823 in Bamberg. She was interred in the burial crypt of Tegernsee Abbey.

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ "Louis Marie, Prince d'Arenberg : Genealogics".
  2. ^ "Relationship Calculator: Genealogics - Comtesse Anne de Mailly-Nesle Dame d'Ivry-sur-Seine". www.genealogics.org. Retrieved 2024-09-29.