Marie Amélie, Duchess of Ratibor, Princess of Corvey, Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (née Princess Amélie of Fürstenberg; 12 February 1821 – 17 January 1899), was the consort of
Victor I, Duke of Ratibor.
Biography
Princess Amelie of Fürstenberg was born on 12 February 1821 in
Donaueschingen
Donaueschingen (; Low Alemannic: ''Eschinge'') is a German town in the Black Forest in the southwest of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar '' Kreis''. It stands near the confluence of the two sources of the river Da ...
as the third child of
Charles Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg, and
Princess Amalie of Baden.
On 19 April 1845 she married
Victor I, Duke of Ratibor, at Donaueschingen.
They had ten children:
* Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (3 October 1846 – 25 August 1847)
*
Viktor II, Duke of Ratibor
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(6 September 1847 – 9 August 1923); married in 1867
Countess Maria Breunner-Enkevoirth, had issue.
* Prince Franz of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (6 April 1849 – 27 May 1925)
* Princess Elisabeth of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (27 February 1851 – 5 October 1928)
* Prince Egon of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (4 January 1853 – 10 February 1896); married in 1885 Princess Leopoldine of
Lobkowicz, had issue.
* Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (27 June 1854 – 29 May 1928)
* Prince Maximilian of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (9 February 1856 – 12 January 1924); married in 1882 Countess Franziska Grimaud d'Orsay, had issue.
* Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (10 Nov 1857 – 25 February 1891)
* Prince Karl Egon of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (7 July 1860 – 4 June 1940)
* Princess Margaret of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (3 June 1863 – 4 June 1940)
She died on 17 January 1899 at Schloss Rauden.
References
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1821 births
1899 deaths
19th-century German women
Amelie
House of Hohenlohe
Princesses in Germany
Duchesses in Germany
People from Donaueschingen