Duchess Amelia of Württemberg (; 28 June 179928 November 1848) was the Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg by marriage to Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. She was a daughter of

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and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg. She was tutored by her governess, the known memoirist

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, who described her pupils in her memoirs.Side Lights on the Reign of Terror; being the memoirs of Mademoiselle des Écherolles (London, 1900)

Marriage and children

She married Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1789–1868), on 24 April 1817, at

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. Amalie and Joseph had six daughters: * Princess ''Alexandrine'' Marie Wilhelmine Katharine Charlotte Therese Henriette Luise Pauline Elisabeth Friederike Georgine of Saxe-Altenburg (14 April 1818, Hildburghausen9 January 1907, Gmunden); married on 18 February 1843 to King

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. * Princess ''Pauline'' Friederike Henriette Auguste of Saxe-Altenburg (24 November 1819, Kirchheim unter Teck11 January 1825, Hildburghausen) * Princess Henriette Friederike ''Therese'' Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (9 October 1823, Hildburghausen3 April 1915, Altenburg) * Princess ''Elisabeth'' Pauline Alexandrine of Saxe-Altenburg (26 March 1826, Hildburghausen2 February 1896, Oldenburg); married on 10 February 1852 to

Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg Peter II () (8 July 1827 – 13 June 1900) was the reigning Grand Duke of Oldenburg from 1853 to 1900. He claimed hereditary parts of Duchy of Holstein after the Second Schleswig War in 1864. After signing a treaty on 23 February 1867 in Kiel, ...

. * Princess ''Alexandra'' Friederike Henriette Pauline Marianne Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (8 July 1830, Altenburg6 July 1911, St. Petersburg); married on 11 September 1848 to

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. Upon her marriage, she took the name Alexandra Iosifovna in a Russian Orthodox baptism. Via this marriage, Amalia is an ancestor of

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and

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. * Princess Luise of Saxe-Altenburg (4 June 1832, Altenburg29 August 1833, Hummelshain) Amalia died on 28 November 1848 at the age of 49 in Altenburg. Her husband decided two days later to abdicate in the favor of his brother George, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Joseph died in 1868 at Altenburg.

Ancestry

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References

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