Emilie | |||||
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Princess consort of Anhalt-Köthen | |||||
Reign | 19 November 1728 – 20 February 1732 | ||||
Born | 15 September 1708 Żary, Electorate of Saxony Holy Roman Empire | ||||
Died | 20 February 1732 Köthen, Anhalt-Köthen Holy Roman Empire | (aged 23)||||
Spouse | Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen | ||||
Issue | Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless | ||||
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House | Promnitz (by birth) Ascania (by marriage) | ||||
Father | Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz | ||||
Mother | Anna Maria of Saxe-Weissenfels |
Christine Johanna Emilie, Princess of Anhalt-Köthen (née Countess Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless; 15 September 1708 – 20 February 1732) was the second wife and consort of Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
Countess Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless was born on 15 September 1708 in Żary, to Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz and Anna Maria of Saxe-Weissenfels, the daughter of Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg.
On 14 January 1726, she married Prince Augustus Louis of Anhalt-Köthen in Żary. She was his second wife. His first wife, Agnes Wilhelmine von Wuthenau, with whom he was in a morganatic marriage, died in 1725.[1] Emilie and Augustus Louis had five children:[2][3]
On 19 November 1728, her husband succeeded his brother, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, as the Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
Emilie died on 20 February 1732 in Köthen. Later that year, her husband married her sister, Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless.