Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Electress consort of Saxony Queen consort of Saxony Duchess of Warsaw
Amalie as a bride, 1769
Born	10 May 1752 Mannheim
Died	15 November 1828 (aged 76)
Burial	Hofkirche, Dresden
Spouse	Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
Issue	Maria Auguste of Saxony
Full name Maria Amalie Auguste
House	House of Wittelsbach House of Wettin
Father	Frederick Michael of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Mother	Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (Maria Amalie Auguste; 10 May 1752 – 15 November 1828) was the last Electress and first Queen of Saxony and Duchess of Warsaw.

Biography

Amalie was born in Mannheim, the daughter of Count Palatine Frederick Michael of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler and his wife, Countess Palatine Maria Francisca of Palatinate-Sulzbach. She was the sister of Maximilian Joseph, later King of Bavaria.

On 29 January 1769 she married the Saxon Elector Frederick Augustus III. In 1806, the Electress and her husband were proclaimed the first King and Queen of Saxony. The following year, Napoleon I made them Duke and Duchess of Warsaw, a newly created principality in Poland.

Amalie bore four children, three of whom were stillborn. Only one daughter, Maria Augusta, attained adulthood, but remained unmarried. From 1804, at the death of her sister-in-law Carolina of Parma, she and her other sister-in-law, Maria Theresa of Austria (1767–1827), shared the responsibility of raising the former's children, something they are said to have done very strictly.^[1]

Amalie died on 15 November 1828 at the age of 76, and was buried in the Hofkirche in Dresden.

Issue

1. unnamed child (born/died 1771)
2. unnamed child (born/died 1775)
3. Maria Augusta Nepomucena Antonia Francisca Xaveria Aloysia (born Dresden 21 June 1782; died Dresden 14 March 1863)
4. unnamed child (born/died 1797)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

16. Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler               8. Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld                       17. Countess Palatine Magdalena Katharina of Zweibrücken               4. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken                             18. Johann Jakob, Count of Rappoltstein               9. Countess Katharina Agathe of Rappoltstein                       19. Wild- and Rhinegravine Anna Claudia of Salm-Kyrburg               2. Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken                                   20. Gustav Adolf, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken               10. Ludwig Kraft, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken                       21. Countess Eleonore Claire of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein               5. Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken                             22. Heinrich Friedrich, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg               11. Princess Philippine Henriette of Hohenlohe-Langenburg                       23. Countess Juliana Dorothea of Castell-Remlingen               1. Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld                                         24. Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach               12. Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach                       25. Countess Amalie of Nassau-Siegen               6. Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach                             26. William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg               13. Landgravine Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg                       27. Countess Maria of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort               3. Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach                                   28. Philip William, Elector Palatine               14. Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine                       29. Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt               7. Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg                             30. Bogusław Radziwiłł               15. Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł                       31. Anna Maria Radziwiłł