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Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1633–1701)


Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (27 June 1633 26 May 1701) was a Danish-German princess of the senior Glücksburg line of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the first Duchess of Augustenburg by marriage. Augustenborg Palace, and as a consequence the nearby town, were named in honor of her.

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Early life and ancestry

The great-granddaughter of king Christian III of Denmark, she was the third daughter, eighth by birth, of Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Sophia Hedwig of Saxe-Lauenburg (1601-1660).[1] She was sister of Sophia Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Family and children

On 15 June 1651, at Copenhagen, she married her first cousin Ernest Günther (14 October 1609 18 January 1689), son of Duke Alexander of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and his wife Countess Dorothea of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1579-1639). They had ten children:

  1. Frederick (10 December 1652 3 August 1692)
  2. Sofie Amalie (25 August 1654 7 December 1655)
  3. Philipp Ernst (24 October 1655 8 September 1677)
  4. Sofie Auguste (2 February 1657 20 July 1657)
  5. Luise Charlotte (13 April 1658 2 May 1740), married on 1 January 1685 to Duke Frederick Louis of Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  6. Ernestine Justine (30 July 1659 18 October 1662)
  7. Ernest Augustus (3 October 1660 11 May 1731)
  8. Dorothea Luise (11 October 1663 21 April 1721), Abbess of Itzehoe in 1686-1721
  9. a child, born and died 18 December 1665
  10. Frederick William (18 November 1668 3 June 1714)

References

  1. Huberty, Michel; Giraud, Alain; Magdelaine, F. and B. (1994). L'Allemagne Dynastique, Tome VII -- Oldenbourg (in French). France: Laballery. pp. 27–28, 32, 46–48, 64–66. ISBN 2-901138-07-1.

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