Caroline Felizitas of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (22 May 1734 – 8 May 1810) was a German Imperial countess. By birth, she was member of the

House of Leiningen The House of Leiningen is the name of an old German noble family whose lands lay principally in Alsace, Lorraine, Saarland, Rhineland, and the Palatinate. Various branches of this family developed over the centuries and ruled counties with Impe ...

and by marriage member of the

House of Nassau The House of Nassau is a diversified aristocratic dynasty in Europe. It is named after the lordship associated with Nassau Castle, located in present-day Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The lords of Nassau were originally titled "Count o ...

Early life

She was born in

Heidesheim Heidesheim am Rhein is an ''Ortsbezirk'' (borough) of the town Ingelheim am Rhein in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Before July 2019, it was a separate municipality belonging to the former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' (a kind ...

, as the youngest daughter of Count

Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (17 July 1695, Mülheim an der Ruhr – 17 November 1766, Heidesheim am Rhein) was a German nobleman. Life Christian Karl Reinhard was the son of John, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg ...

and his wife, Countess Katherina Polyxena of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (1702-1765).

Marriage and issue

She married Charles William, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, son of Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen and Princess Christiane Wilhelmine of

Saxe-Eisenach Saxe-Eisenach (german: Sachsen-Eisenach) was an Ernestine duchy ruled by the Saxon House of Wettin. The state intermittently existed at three different times in the Thuringian region of the Holy Roman Empire. The chief town and capital of all th ...

, on 16 April 1760. They had 4 children: * Karl Wilhelm (26 March 1761 - 10 March 1763). * Karoline Polyxena (4 April 1762 - 17 August 1823). * Luise Henriette Karoline (14 June 1763 - 30 March 1845). * A son (9 March 1768 - March 1768). Caroline died in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

Ancestry

References

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