Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel


Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was a Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by marriage to Ferdinand Albert II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She was the mother of the Queen of Prussia, the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and the Queen of Denmark and Norway.

Life

Antoinette was the youngest of four daughters born to Louis Rudolph of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and his wife Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen. Her older sister was Elisabeth Christine, mother of Empress Maria Theresa. Her other surviving sister Charlotte Christine was the daughter-in-law of Peter the Great of Russia.

Marriage

15 October 1712 saw her marriage to her father's cousin Ferdinand Albert II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, son of Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern and Princess Christine of Hesse-Eschwege.
The marriage was described as very happy and Antoinette was the mother of eight sons and six daughters. In 1735, her father-in-law the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg died and her husband succeeded him. Her husband himself died September the same year. The Dowager Duchess went on to survive her husband for 27 years.

Issue

  1. Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel married Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia and had issue.
  2. Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel married Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia and had issue.
  3. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel married Frederick II of Prussia, no issue.
  4. Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel died unmarried.
  5. Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel died unmarried.
  6. Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel married Prince Augustus William of Prussia and had issue.
  7. Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel married Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and had issue.
  8. Albert of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel died unmarried.
  9. Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel died unmarried.
  10. Theresa Natalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel died unmarried.
  11. Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel married Frederick V of Denmark and had issue.
  12. Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel died in infancy.
  13. Frederick Francis of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel died unmarried.

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