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Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen Westerburg

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Reign
  
1672-1680


Name
  
Johanna of

Born
  
3 June 1647 Schaumburg an der Lahn (
1647-06-03
)

Issue
  
Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme Prince Maurice

Father
  
George William, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg

Mother
  
Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold

Died
  
November 4, 1687, Dahme, Germany

Spouse
  
Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels

Parents
  
Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold

Children
  
Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme

Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg (3 June 1647 - 4 November 1687), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Runkel (through female line surnamed Leiningen-Westerburg) and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels.

Born in Schaumburg an der Lahn, she was the third of nineteen children born from the marriage of George William, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg in Schaumburg and Countess Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold. From her eighteen older and younger siblings, eleven survive adulthood: Simon Philipp, Frederick William, Maria Christiana (by marriage Countess Reuss of Lobenstein), Sophia Magdalena (by marriage Countess of Schönburg-Hartenstein), John Anton, Christoph Christian, Johanna Elisabeth (by her two marriages Countess of Wied-Runkel and Metternich-Winneburg), Angelika Catherine (by marriage Grevinde af Vasaborg), Henry Christian Frederick Ernest, Georg II Charles Louis and Juliana Eleonore (by marriage Countess of Metternich-Winneburg).

Life

In Halle on 29 January 1672, Johanna Walpurgis married Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels as his second wife. They had three children:

  1. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme (Halle, 20 November 1673 - Dahme, 16 April 1715).
  2. Maurice (Halle, 5 January 1676 - Szeged, Hungary, 12 September 1695).
  3. Stillborn son (1679).

Juliana Walpurgis died in Dahme aged 40, having survived her husband by seven years. She was buried in the Schlosskirche, Weissenfels.

References

Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg Wikipedia