Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg
| full name = {{langx|fr|Amélie-Louise Julie}}
| title = Duchess in Bavaria
| image = Amalie Luise von Arenberg, Herzogin in Bayern.jpg
| caption =
| spouse = {{marriage|Duke Pius August in Bavaria|1807}}
| issue = Duke Maximilian Joseph
| house = Arenberg
| father = Prince Louis of Arenberg
| mother = Marie de Mailly-Nesle, Dame d'Ivry-sur-Seine
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1789|4|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Brussels, Austrian Netherlands
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1823|4|4|1789|4|10|df=y}}
| death_place = Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria
| burial_place = Tegernsee Abbey
}}
Princess Amélie Louise Julie of Arenberg, (full German name: Amalie Luise Julie, Prinzessin und Herzogin von Arenberg and full French name: Amélie Louise, princesse et duchesse d'Arenberg, (born 10 April 1789 in Brussels, Austrian Netherlands; died 4 April 1823 in Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria) was a member of the House of Arenberg by birth and, through her marriage to Duke Pius August in Bavaria, a member of the Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen line of the House of Wittelsbach. Amélie Louise was a grandmother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria through her son Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria.
Early life
Born in Brussels, Austrian Netherlands, Amélie Louise Julie was the only daughter of Prince Louis Marie Eugène of Arenberg (1757–1795) and his first wife, Marie Adélaïde Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Dame d'Ivry-sur-Seine (1766–1789). She had a half-sister, Princess Catherine Marie Louise Francoise of Arenberg (1792-1794), from her father's second marriage to Princess Elisabeth Shakhovskoy (1773-1796), member of the Russian nobility.{{cite web | url=https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00015228&tree=LEO | title=Louis Marie, Prince d'Arenberg : Genealogics }} Amélie paternal grandparents were Charles Marie Raymond, 5th Duke of Arenberg and his wife, Countess Louise Margarethe von der Marck-Schleiden (1730-1820). Her maternal grandparents were Louis Joseph de Mailly-Nesle, Prince d'Orange and Neuchâtel (1744-1810) and his wife, Adélaide Julie de Hautefort, Mademoiselle de Montignac (1743-1783). The notorious Mailly-Nesle sisters, Pauline Félicité, Louise Julie and Diane Adélaïde, mistresses of King Louis XV were among her mother's cousins.{{Cite web |title=Relationship Calculator: Genealogics - Comtesse Anne de Mailly-Nesle Dame d'Ivry-sur-Seine |url=https://www.genealogics.org/relationship.php?altprimarypersonID=I00015229&savedpersonID=I00422627&secondpersonID=I00013058&maxrels=1&disallowspouses=1&generations=8&tree=LEO&primarypersonID=I00015229 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.genealogics.org}}
Marriage and issue
Amélie Louise married Duke Pius August in Bavaria, son of Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria and his wife Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, on 26 May 1807 in Brussels. Pius August and Amélie Louise had one son:
- Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (4 December 1808 – 15 November 1888)
After their marriage, the couple moved to Bamberg and their son Maximilian Joseph was born the following year. In 1817, Amélie Louise sent her only son to reside with his great uncle Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, where he studied at the Royal Institute of Education. Amélie Louise did not see him until 1820. Shortly after returning from her second visit to Munich, Amélie Louise died in 1823 in Bamberg. She was interred in the burial crypt of Tegernsee Abbey.
Ancestry
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|1= 1. Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg
|2= 2. Prince Louis Marie Eugène of Arenberg
|3= 3. Marie de Mailly, dame d'Ivry-sur-Seine
|4= 4. Charles, 5th Duke of Arenberg
|5= 5. Louise, Countess de La Mark-Schleiden
|6= 6. Louis Joseph, Marquis de Mailly-Nesle
|7= 7. Adélaïde Juliette de Hautefort
|8= 8. Léopold Philippe, 4th Duke of Arenberg
|9= 9. Maria Francesca Pignatelli dei Duchi di Bisaccia
|10= 10. Louis, Duc de La Marck
|11= 11. Marie Anne de Visdelou, Comtesse de Bienassis
|12= 12. Louis, Comte de Mailly-Rubempré
|13= 13. Anne Arbaleste, vicomtesse de Melun
|14= 14. Emmanuel Dieudonné, marquis de Hautefort
|15= 15. Françoise Claire d'Harcourt
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References
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- {{ Cite book | first1=Hermann | last1=von Witzleben | first2=Ilka | last2=von Vignau | title=Die Herzöge in Bayern. Von der Pfalz zum Tegernsee | trans-title=The dukes in Bavaria. From the Palatinate to Tegernsee | location=Munich | date=1976 | isbn=3-7913-0394-5 | language=de }}
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