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House of Württemberg The House of Württemberg is a German dynasty and former royal family from Württemberg. History County The House probably originated in the vicinity of the Salian dynasty. Around 1080 the ancestors of modern Württemberg, which was then called ...

House of Reuss Younger Line , father = Duke Eugen of Württemberg , mother =

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, birth_date = , birth_place = Carlsruhe,

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Gera Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...

Reuss Younger Line The Principality of Reuss-Gera (german: Fürstentum Reuß-Gera), called the Principality of the Reuss Junior Line (german: Fürstentum Reuß jüngerer Linie) after 1848, was a sovereign state in modern Germany, ruled by members of the House of Re ...

Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (german: Herzogin Pauline Louise Agnes von Württemberg; 13 October 1835 – 10 July 1886) was a German aristocrat and writer under the pseudonym of Angela Hohenstein.

Life and family

Duchess Agnes was born at Carlsruhe,

(now Pokój,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

) was the youngest child of Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857), (son of Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and

Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (1764-1834) Princess Louise Maximiliane Caroline Emanuel of Stolberg-Gedern (20 September 1752 – 29 January 1824) was the wife of Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite claimant to the English and Scottish thrones. The unhappy marriage led her to request f ...

) by his second marriage to

, (daughter of

Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Karl Ludwig, 3rd Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (10 September 1762 in Langenburg – 4 April 1825 in Langenburg) was the third Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. He was the first child of Prince Christian Albert of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife, ...

and

Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms-Baruth Countess Amalie Henriette Charlotte of Solms-Baruth ( Kliczków, 30 January 1768 – Karlsruhe, 31 October 1847) was an Imperial countess of Solms by birth and Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg by marriage. Early life She was the only child of ...

). Agnes had three half-siblings by her father's previous marriage with

Princess Mathilde of Waldeck and Pyrmont , reign = , title = Duchess Eugen of Württemberg , house = House of Waldeck-Pyrmont (by birth)House of Württemberg (by marriage) , spouse = Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857) , issue = Marie, Landgravine of Hesse-Philippsthal Duke E ...

. Agnes founded numerous foundations and institutions that bore her name, such as the Agnes School, a school for female servants in Gera.

Marriage and issue

Agnes married on 6 February 1858 at

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line (german: Heinrich XIV Fürst Reuß jüngere Linie; 28 May 183229 March 1913) was Prince Reuss Younger Line from 1867 to 1913. Early life Heinrich XIV was born at Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, sixth child o ...

(1832–1913), son of

Heinrich LXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line , house = House of Reuss Younger Line , father = Heinrich XLII, Prince Reuss Younger Line , mother =Princess Caroline of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg , birth_date = , birth_place =Schleiz, Reuss , death_date = , death_place =Gera, ...

and Princess Adelheid of

Reuss-Ebersdorf Reuss-Ebersdorf was a county and from 1806 a principality located in Germany. The Counts of Reuss-Ebersdorf belonged to the Reuss Junior Line. Reuss was successively a part of the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, German Confederatio ...

. They had two children: *

Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (german: Heinrich XXVII Fürst Reuß jüngere Linie; 10 November 185821 November 1928) was the last reigning Prince Reuss Younger Line from 1913 to 1918. Then he became Head of the House of Reuss Younger L ...

(10 November 1858 – 21 November 1928), married in 1884 to

Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (; 4 September 1864 – 18 March 1929) was Princess Reuss Younger Line as the wife of Heinrich XXVII. She was the eldest daughter of Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Princess Leopoldin ...

, had issue. *Princess Elisabeth Reuss of Schleiz (27 October 1859 – 23 February 1951), married in 1887 to Prince Hermann of

Solms-Braunfels Solms-Braunfels was a County and later Principality with Imperial immediacy in what is today the federal Land of Hesse in Germany. Solms-Braunfels was a partition of Solms, ruled by the House of Solms, and was raised to a Principality of th ...

, had issue.

Works

*''Helene'' (narrative, 1867) *''From a lovely time. Eight images'' (incl.: Fra Angelico Giovanni da Fiesole, Roswitha, From Venice, a fantasy forest, three folk songs in a picture, In the back room, the lilies of the cemetery Meran, Johann Arnold's diary, 1878) *''The blessing of the Grandmother'' (Family picture in two volumes, 1880)

Ancestry

Notes and sources

*The Royal House of Stuart, London, 1969, 1971, 1976, Addington, A. C., Reference: II 223 *Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser, Reference: 1956 *L'Allemagne dynastique, Huberty, Giraud, Magdelaine, Reference: II 525 {{DEFAULTSORT:Agnes of Wurttemberg 1835 births 1886 deaths Duchesses of Württemberg House of Reuss 19th-century German writers People from Namysłów County People from the Province of Silesia