Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg

Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg
Duchess consort of Saxe-Weisselfels
Reign 1672-1680
Born (1647-06-03)3 June 1647
Schaumburg an der Lahn
Died 4 November 1687(1687-11-04) (aged 40)
Dahme
Spouse Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
Issue Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme
Prince Maurice
Father George William, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg
Mother Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold

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).[1][2]

Life

In Halle on 29 January 1672, Johanna Walpurgis married Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels as his second wife. They had three children:[3][4]

  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.[5]

References

Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg
Born: 3 June 1647 Died: 4 November 1687
German royalty
Vacant
Title last held by
Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Duchess consort of Saxe-Weissenfels
1672-1680
Succeeded by
Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg
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