Maria Salomé Schweppenhäuser (

Rechtenbach Rechtenbach is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (municipal association) of Lohr am Main. It has a popula ...

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), 29 November 1755 – Warsaw, 5 September 1833), daughter of Heinrich Wilhelm Schweppenhäuser, a Protestant priest from

Oberotterbach Oberotterbach is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Geography The village is located between the Palatine Forest biosphere reserve and the Rhine river. The municipality of Oberotterbac ...

, and his wife, Charlotte Philippine, née Westermann, was a court chambermaid at

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and

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. She was the wife of

Friedrich Karl Emanuel Hauke Friedrich Karl Emanuel Hauke (born Johann Friedrich Michael Hauck; pl, Fryderyk Karol Hauke; 4 October 173718 June 1810)Stanisław Łoza, ''Rodziny polskie obcego pochodzenia osiadłe w Warszawie i okolicach'', I - III (Warsaw, 1932-35) was the so ...

(1737–1810), and, as such, an ancestor of the

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/ Mountbatten family, descended from her paternal granddaughter

Julia Hauke Julia, Princess of Battenberg (previously Countess Julia Therese Salomea von Hauke; – 19 September 1895) was the wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, the third son of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse. The daughter of a Polish general o ...

and Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine. After the death of her father, Maria Salomé was a chambermaid at the court of

, the seat of the widowed Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken. She was later employed at the court of

by Caroline's daughter, Princess Caroline, wife of Louis, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1773 Maria Salomea married Friedrich Hauke, secretary of the Count of Brühl. Brühl was summoned to Warsaw in 1782, and Friedrich Hauke became a tax collector in Poland. Friedrich and Maria Salomé's son, Johann Moritz Hauke, was a general of the Russian troops in Poland from 1816 and was elevated to Count Hauke in 1829, but was murdered in 1830, during an uprising in Warsaw, and his children went to live with their grandmother at the court of Nicholas I of Russia in Saint Petersburg. His daughter Julia married morganatically Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine in 1851. Prince Alexander's older brother the

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created Julia "Countess" and later "Princess of Battenberg", a title passing on to all of their descendants, although renounced by some. Through her granddaughter, Maria Salomé is a direct ancestor of both the British royal family and

Spanish royal family The Spanish royal family consists of King Felipe VI, Queen Letizia, their children (Leonor, Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía of Spain), and Felipe's parents, King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía. The royal family lives at Zarzuela Palace i ...

. A plaque on the former rectory in

celebrates the town's connection to the House of Windsor. This rectory was built in 1732 by Maria Salomé's grandfather, Johann Schweppenhäuser. Oberotterbach-20131214-02-Haus-2.jpg, Former Protestant rectory in Oberotterbach, built 1732 Oberotterbach-20131214-03-Tafel.jpg, Memorial plaque to pastor Johann Schweppenhäuser at the former rectory in Oberotterbach

Bibliography

* Leo van de Pas: The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977 * Bernt Engelmann: Die Aufsteiger - Wie Herrschaftshäuser und Finanzimperien entstanden. Göttingen, 1989 (German)

External links

* Unterdorfstraße in Oberotterbach. Ein Film von Stefanie Fink, SWR Fernsehen in Rheinland-Pfalz, Landesschau Donnerstag, 14. März 201

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schweppenhauser, Maria Salome Battenberg family German ladies-in-waiting 1755 births 1833 deaths People from Südliche Weinstraße