Emilie of Promnitz-Pless
Christine Johanna Emilie, Princess of Anhalt-Köthen was the second wife and consort of Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.Biography
Countess Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless was born on 15 September 1708 in Żary, to Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz and Anna Maria of Saxe-Weissenfels, the daughter of Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg.
On 14 January 1726, she married Prince Augustus Louis of Anhalt-Köthen in Żary. She was his second wife. His first wife, Agnes Wilhelmine von Wuthenau, with whom he was in a morganatic marriage, died in 1725. Emilie and Augustus Louis had five children:
On 19 November 1728, her husband succeeded his brother, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, as the Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
Emilie died on 20 February 1732 in Köthen. Later that year, her husband married her sister, Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless.
