, reign = , title = Duchess Eugen of Württemberg , house = House of Waldeck-Pyrmont (by birth)

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Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857) Duke Eugen of Württemberg (german: Herzog Friedrich Eugen Carl Paul Ludwig von Württemberg; 8 January 1788 – 16 September 1857) was a German prince and a General of Infantry in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Early life ...

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Rhoden Rhoden is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europ ...

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, father =

George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (german: Georg Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont; 6 May 17479 September 1813) was Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 1812 to 1813. He was the son of Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and Countess Pala ...

, mother = Princess Auguste of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Princess ''Mathilde'' of Waldeck and Pyrmont (german: Mathilde Prinzessin zu Waldeck und Pyrmont; 10 April 1801 – 13 April 1825) was a member of the

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and a Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a member of the

and a Duchess of Württemberg through her marriage to Duke Eugen of Württemberg

Early life

Mathilde was born in

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and his first wife Princess Auguste of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Marriage and issue

On 21 January 1817, in

Arolsen Bad Arolsen (, until 1997 Arolsen, ''Bad'' being the German name for ''Spa'') is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and t ...

, she married Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857, son of

Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758–1822) , house = Württemberg , father = Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg , mother = Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt , birth_date = , birth_place = Schwedt, Margraviate of Brandenburg , death_date = , ...

and Princess Luise of Stolberg-Gedern (1764-1828), first cousin of the better known Countess of Albany. They had three children: * Duchess Marie of Württemberg (25 March 1818 – 10 April 1888), married in 1845 to

Charles II, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal Charles II of Hesse-Philippsthal (22 May 1803 in Philippsthal – 12 February 1868 in Philippsthal) was a member of the House of Hesse and was Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal from 1849 until 1866. Life Charles was a son of Landgrave Ernest Cons ...

, had issue. * Duke Eugen of Württemberg (25 December 1820 – 8 January 1875), married in 1843 to Princess Mathilde of Schaumburg-Lippe, had issue. *Duke William Alexander of Württemberg (13 April 1825 – 15 April 1825) Mathilde died while giving birth to her third child. In 1827, Eugene remarried to

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with whom he had four children.

Ancestry

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