Anna Louise Föhse, Princess of the Holy Roman Empire (22 March 1677 in

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– 5 February 1745) was a German imperial princess. Born as a commoner to Rudolf Föhse (d. 1698), the court pharmacist in Dessau, and his wife, Agnes Ohme (d. 1707), she married

Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (3 July 1676 – 7 April 1747) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau from 1693 to 1747. He was also a ''Generalfeldmarschall'' in the Prussian army. Nickname ...

and was later ennobled by

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; hu, I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria An ...

Life

Anna Louise Föhse was the childhood sweetheart and later

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wife of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau. Despite great resistance on the part of her own father and of her mother-in-law Henriette Catherine, the daughter of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau, she married him in 1698 at age 22. After paying to the imperial treasury, she was raised to

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ss by Emperor Leopold I three years later, giving her a higher rank than him.Esther Knorr-Anders, ''Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung'', issue. 52/53, 26 December 2009, p. 9 In the same year 1698, he took up government. Anna Louise and Leopold had ten children together; Leopold also fathered two illegitimate children in 1733 and 1735. Relations between Anna Louise and her mother-in-law later improved. She also had a good relationship with the Prussian royal family. Her career was the subject of the tabloid press of the day, and of several plays. She died in 1745; broken-hearted by her loss, Leopold died only two years later.

Issue

# William Gustav (1699-1737) # Leopold II Maximilian (1700-1751), Leopold's successor and a Prussian

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# Dietrich (1702-1769), also a Prussian field marshal # Frederick Henry (1705-1781) # Henriette Marie Louise (1707-1707) #

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(1709-1732), married

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(1712-1760), also a Prussian field marshal # Anna Wilhelmine (1715-1780) # Leopoldine Marie (1716-1782) - married to Frederick Henry of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1709-1788) # Henriette Amalie (1720-1793)

Footnotes

1677 births 1745 deaths People from Dessau-Roßlau People from Anhalt-Dessau 17th-century German people 18th-century German people German princesses Morganatic spouses of German royalty {{Germany-noble-stub