Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen (12 May 1703,

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- 8 January 1777,

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) was a German noblewoman. By birth she was a member of the House of Castell-Remlingen and by marriage member of the

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Early life

She was the sixth child and fourth daughter of

Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen (German - ''Wolfgang Dietrich zu Castell-Remlingen'') (6 January 1641 – 8 April 1709) was a German nobleman. From 1668 until his death he was the ruler of the county of Castell-Remlingen, sharing power wit ...

by his second wife, Countess Dorothea Renata of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (1669-1743). Count Wolfgang Dietrich had fourteen children altogether, of whom Sophie Theodora was the twelfth child and tenth daughter.

Marriage and issue

On 7 September 1721 she married

Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (born 21 July 1699 in Ebersdorf; died: 22 May 1747 in Herrnhaag) was a member of the House of Reuss Younger Line and Count Ebersdorf from 1711 until his death Life Heinrich was the son of Count Heinric ...

, with whom she had thirteen children: * Renate Benigna (1722–1747) * Heinrich XXIV (1724–1779), Count of

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, grandfather of

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and great-grandfather of

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* Heinrich XXVI (1725–1796) * Heinrich XXVIII (30 August 1726 — 10 May 1797), married Countess Agnes Sophie of Promnitz (1720–1791), daughter of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz * Sophie Auguste (1728–1753), married 1748, Baron Ludwig von Weitelfshausen-Schautenbach * Charlotte Louise (1729–1792) * Heinrich XXXI (1731–1763) * Heinrich XXXII (born: 1733, killed in the

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on 1 October 1756) * Heinrich XXXIII (1734–1791) * Heinrich XXXIV (1737–1806) * Christiane Eleonore (1739–1761) * Mary Elizabeth (1740–1784), married in 1765 Heinrich XXV, Count of

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* Johanna Dorothea (1743–1801) married in 1770 Christoph Friedrich Levin von Trotha

Bibliography

*Thomas Gehrlein: "Das Haus Reuss: Älterer und Jüngerer Linie", booklet, August 2006 *Stephan Hirzel: ''Der Graf und die Brüder'', Quell Verlag, Stuttgart, 1980, {{Authority control 1703 births 1777 deaths House of Reuss German countesses