Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (12 August 1704 – 25 March 1774) was

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Zweibrücken Zweibrücken (; french: Deux-Ponts, ; Palatinate German: ''Zweebrigge'', ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river. Name The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; olde ...

by marriage.

Biography

She was the daughter of Count Louis Crato of Nassau-Saarbrücken (died 1713) and Countess Philippine Henriette of

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(1679–1751). On 21 September 1719, at the age of 15, she married her 44-year-old godfather, Christian III of Zweibrücken. The wedding took place at Castle Lorenzen in

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. This marriage produced four children: * Caroline Henriette Christine (1721–1774), called "the great landgravine" : married to Landgrave Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt *

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(1722–1775), Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate-Zweibrücken * Frederick Michael (1724–1767), Count Palatine of Birkenfeld * Christiane Henriette (1725–1816), Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and by marriage Princess of

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When Christian III died in 1735, Caroline took over the

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for five years, with the consent of Emperor Charles VI, until her son Christian IV came of age. From 1744 to 1774 she lived at

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Castle. She died on 25 March 1774 in

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at the age of 69. Her grave is in the City Church in Darmstadt.

External links

Entry for Caroline, Princess of Nassau in GeneaNet
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