Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg, born 20 August 1727 (20 July, according to other sources) at

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, in the then

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, was a daughter of

George August, Count of Erbach-Schönberg George August was the Count of Erbach-Schönberg and an Imperial counselor. Biography He was the youngest son of George Albert II, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau and Countess Anna Dorothea of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg. He was born on Sunday 17 June 1 ...

, and

Ferdinande Henriette, Countess of Stolberg-Gedern Countess Ferdinande Henriette of Stolberg-Gedern, born 2 October 1699 at Gedern, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, then in the Holy Roman Empire, was a daughter of Louis Christian, Count of Stolberg-Gedern, and Duchess Christine of Mecklenburg-Güst ...

. She died at Ebersdorf, Thuringia, on 22 April 1796, at age 68. Through her daughter Augusta, she was the great grandmother of

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of the United Kingdom.

Family

She married

Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf (22 January 1724, in Ebersdorf – 13 May 1779, in Ebersdorf), was ruler of the German county Reuss-Ebersdorf from 1747 until his death in 1779. He was the eldest son of the thirteen children of Heinrich ...

, on 28 June 1754 at

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, and had seven children, all of them born at Ebersdorf, Reuss-Jüngere-Linie,

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Ancestry

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karoline Ernestine Of Erbach-Schonberg, Countess House of Erbach-Schönberg German princesses 1727 births 1796 deaths People from Gedern House of Reuss Princesses of Reuss