Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg (3 June 1647 – 4 November 1687), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Runkel (through female line surnamed Leiningen-Westerburg) and by marriage Duchess of

Saxe-Weissenfels Saxe-Weissenfels (german: Sachsen-Weißenfels) was a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire from 1656/7 until 1746 with its residence at Weißenfels. Ruled by a cadet branch of the Albertine House of Wettin, the duchy passed to the Electorate of Saxony u ...

. Born in Schaumburg an der Lahn, she was the third of nineteen children born from the marriage of Georg Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg in Schaumburg and Countess Sophia Elisabeth of

Lippe-Detmold Lippe (later Lippe-Detmold and then again Lippe) was a historical state in Germany, ruled by the House of Lippe. It was located between the Weser river and the southeast part of the Teutoburg Forest. It was founded in the 1640s under a separ ...

. From her eighteen older and younger siblings, eleven survive adulthood: Simon Philipp, Frederick William, Maria Christiana (by marriage Countess Reuss of Lobenstein), Sophia Magdalena (by marriage Countess of Schönburg-Hartenstein), John Anton, Christoph Christian, Johanna Elisabeth (by her two marriages Countess of

Wied-Runkel Wied-Runkel was a small German sovereign state. Wied-Runkel was located around the town and castle of Runkel, located on the Lahn River. It extended from the town of Runkel Runkel is a town on the river Lahn in Limburg-Weilburg district in He ...

and Metternich-Winneburg), Angelika Catherine (by marriage Countess of

Vasaborg Vasaborg was a noble family of Sweden and a branch of the House of Vasa. Origins King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden had an illegitimate son called Gustav Gustavsson who in 1637 was ennobled under the name of Vasaborg, echoing his father's House ...

), Henry Christian Frederick Ernest, Georg II Charles Louis and Juliana Eleonore (by marriage Countess of Metternich-Winneburg).

Life

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In Halle on 29 January 1672, Johanna Walpurgis married

Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels Augustus of Saxe-Weissenfels (Dresden, 13 August 1614 – 4 June 1680, Halle), was a Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Querfurt of the House of Wettin and administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. He was the fourth (but second surviving) son of J ...

as his second wife. They had three children: #

Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme Frederick of Saxe-Weissenfels (''Frederick Erdmann''; b. Halle (Saale), Halle, 20 November 1673 - d. Dahme, Brandenburg, Dahme, 16 April 1715), was a German prince member of the House of Wettin and Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme. ...

(Halle, 20 November 1673 – Dahme, 16 April 1715). #Maurice (Halle, 5 January 1676 –

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, Hungary, 12 September 1695). #Stillborn son (1679). Juliana Walpurgis died in Dahme aged 40, having survived her husband by seven years. She was buried in the ''Schlosskirche'', Weissenfels.Leiningen-Westerburg line in: royaltyguide.nl
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Johanna Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form ''Iōanna'' lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek /h/ cou ...

1647 births 1687 deaths 17th-century German women