Countess Maria Magdalena of Oettingen-Baldern (1619 – 31 August 1688 in
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with Fra ...
) was the second wife of the Margrave
William
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
of Baden-Baden.
Mary Magdalene was a daughter of Count Ernst I von Oettingen to Baldern (1584–1626) and his wife Countess Katharina von Helfenstein-Wiesensteig (1589–1638). She married Margrave William of Baden-Baden in 1650 in Vienna.
The following children were born to the marriage:
* Philip Francis William (1652 in Baden-Baden – 1655)
* Anna Maria Wilhelmina (8 September 1655 in Baden-Baden – 22 August 1702), married in 1680 with Prince Ferdinand August of Lobkowicz (1655–1715)
* Charles Bernard (1657 in Baden-Baden – 1678 in
Rheinfelden), fell in the
Battle of Rheinfelden
The Battle of Rheinfelden (28 February and 3 March 1638) was a military event in the course of the Thirty Years' War, consisting in fact of two battles to the north and south of the present-day town of Rheinfelden. On one side was a French-all ...
during the
Franco-Dutch War
* Eva
* Maria
Countess Maria Magdalena of Oettingen-Baldern was the teacher of her step-grandson, the future Margrave
Louis William of Baden-Baden after his mother did not want to live with her husband at the court in Baden-Baden and moved to Paris. Her husband, Maria Magdalena's step-son, Hereditary Prince
Ferdinand Maximilian then had his 3-months-old son kidnapped from Paris back to Baden-Baden and asked Maria Magdalena to educate him (1655).
Margravines of Baden-Baden
House of Oettingen
1619 births
1688 deaths
17th-century German people
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