Princess Sophie of Luxembourg

Princess Sophie of Luxembourg
Princess Sophie of Saxony
Born (1902-02-14)14 February 1902
Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg
Died 24 May 1941(1941-05-24) (aged 39)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Burial Katholische Hofkirche, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Spouse Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony
Issue Prince Dedo
Prince Timo
Prince Gero
Full name
French: Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine
House House of Nassau-Weilburg
House of Wettin
Father William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Mother Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal
Religion Roman Catholicism

Princess Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine of Luxembourg[1][2] (14 February 1902 24 May 1941) was the sixth and youngest daughter[1][2] of Grand Duke William IV and his wife, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal.[1][2]

Life

Sophie was born in Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg.[1][2] Two of Sophie's elder sisters reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg: Marie-Adélaïde and Charlotte.

Sophie married Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony,[1][2] youngest son[1][2] of the last Saxon monarch Frederick Augustus III and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany,[1][2] on 12 April 1921 at Schloss Hohenburg.[1][2] Sophie and Ernst Heinrich had three sons, three grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren:[1][2]

Sophie died on 24 May 1941 at age 39 in Munich of pneumonia.[1][2] Following her death, Ernst Heinrich married secondly and morganatically to Virginia Dulon on 28 June 1947 in Paris.[1][2]

Titles and styles

Ancestry

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Darryl Lundy (26 October 2008). "Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine von Nassau-Weilburg, Princesse de Luxembourg". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-12-25. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Paul Theroff. "LUXEMBURG". Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
  3. See wikipedia article on Ernst Heinrich of Saxony.
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