Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (German: Augusta Amalia Ludovika Georgia von Bayern) (21 June 1788 in Munich – 13 May 1851 in Strasbourg) was the second child and eldest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt. By marriage, she was a French princess.

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Princess Augusta of Bavaria
Princess of Venice Grand Duchess of Frankfurt
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, c. 1825
Viceregal consort of Italy
Tenure	14 January 1806 – 11 April 1814
Duchess consort of Leuchtenburg Princess consort of Eichstätt
Tenure	14 November 1817 – 21 February 1824
Born	(1788-06-21)21 June 1788 Strasbourg, Kingdom of France
Died	13 May 1851(1851-05-13) (aged 62) Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
Spouse	Eugène de Beauharnais ​ ​ (m. 1806; died 1824)​
Issue	Joséphine, Queen of Sweden and Norway Eugénie, Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen Auguste, Prince Consort of Portugal Amélie, Empress of Brazil Théodoline, Countess of Württemberg Princess Carolina Maximilian, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
Names German: Augusta Amalia Ludovika Georgia French: Auguste Amélie Louise Georgie
House	Wittelsbach
Father	Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
Mother	Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt

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Augusta Amalia of Bavaria was the eldest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1795, upon the death of her uncle, her father Maximilian became the reigning duke of Zweibrücken, but the troops of the young First French Republic occupied his States. Augusta lost her mother to tuberculosis in 1796; a year later, her father married the young Caroline of Baden, who imposed a seriousness on her husband’s court that some considered beneficial. At first, Augusta did not like her stepmother, unlike her younger siblings Karl Theodore and Charlotte, as she was still attached to her late mother; however, Augusta and Caroline’s relationship improved over time. In 1799, upon the death of his distant cousin Charles Theodore, Maximilian became count-elector, Palatine of the Rhine and Duke-Elector of Bavaria as Maximilian III.

Although promised in marriage to the heir of Baden, Charles, originally, the engagement was broken at the behest of Napoleon I of France. On 14 January 1806 in Munich, Augusta married Eugène de Beauharnais, the only son of Josephine de Beauharnais and Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais and stepson of Napoleon.^[1] In return, Napoleon raised Bavaria from a state to a Kingdom. Although a diplomatic marriage, this union would turn out to be a happy one. In 1817, Augusta's father named his son-in-law Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstädt, with the style Royal Highness.

Augusta and Eugène had seven children:

• Princess Joséphine Maximiliane Eugénie Napoléonne de Beauharnais (1807–1876); married Oscar I of Sweden, himself the son of Napoleon's old love, Désirée Clary.
• Princess Eugénie Hortense Auguste de Beauharnais (1808–1847); married Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
• Prince Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810–1835); married Maria II of Portugal. There was no issue from this marriage.
• Princess Amélie Auguste Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais (31 July 1812 – 26 January 1873); married Pedro I of Brazil (father of Maria II of Portugal and Pedro II of Brazil) and became Empress of Brazil.
• Princess Theodelinde Louise Eugénie Auguste Napoléone de Beauharnais (1814–1857); married Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach.
• Princess Carolina Clotilde de Beauharnais (1816)
• Prince Maximilian Josèphe Eugène Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais (1817–1852); married Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, eldest daughter of Nicholas I of Russia and received the title of "Prince Romanovsky" with the style "Imperial Highness" in 1852.

Augusta had outlived her husband and three of her children by the time she died in 1851 at the age of 63 in Munich. At that time, France's president was her nephew Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the son of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, the sister of Prince Eugène.

• A young Princess Augusta.
• Augusta's marriage to Eugène de Beauharnais, by François Guillaume Menageot
• Augusta with her daughters Joséphine and Eugénie
• Tomb of Augusta of Bavaria

•  Kingdom of Portugal: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Isabel, 1 December 1834^[2]