Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg
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{{Infobox royalty
| name =Princess Amalie
| full name = {{langx|de|Christiane Amalie}}
| title = Hereditary Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
| image = Johann Friedrich August Tischbein - Christiane Amalie Erbprinzessin von Anhalt-Dessau.jpg
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| spouse = {{marriage|Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|1792|1814|end=died}}
| issue = Auguste, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt
Prince George Bernhard
Prince Paul Christian
Louise, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg
Prince Frederick Augustus
Prince William Waldemar
| house =Hesse-Homburg
| father =Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
| mother =Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt
| birth_date ={{Birth date|1774|6|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire
| death_date ={{Death date and age|1846|02|03|1774|6|29|df=y}}
| death_place = Dessau, Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau
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Princess and Landgravine Christiane Amalie of Hesse-Homburg,{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} full German name: Christiane Amalie, Landgräfin von Hessen-Homburg{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} (29 June 1774, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} – 3 February 1846, Dessau, Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}) was a member of the House of Hesse-Homburg and a Princess and Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg by birth. Through her marriage to Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Amalie was also a member of the House of Ascania and Hereditary Princess of Anhalt-Dessau.
Family
Amalie was the fifth child of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg and his wife Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
Marriage and issue
Amalie married Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, only surviving child of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife Margravine Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, on 12 June 1792 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Amalie and Frederick had seven children:{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
- Amalie Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 18 August 1793 – d. Rudolstadt, 12 June 1854), married on 15 April 1816 to Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
- Leopold IV Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 1 October 1794 – d. Dessau, 22 May 1871); since 1863 Duke of all Anhalt.
- George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 21 February 1796 – d. Dresden, 16 October 1865)
- Paul Christian of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 22 March 1797 – d. Dessau, 4 May 1797)
- Louise Fredericka of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 1 March 1798 – d. Homburg, 11 June 1858), a deaf-mute from birth; married on 12 February 1818 to her maternal uncle Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.
- Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 23 September 1799 – d. Dessau, 4 December 1864).
- William Waldemar of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 29 May 1807 – d. Vienna, 8 October 1864), married morganatically on 9 July 1840 to Emilie Klausnitzer (b. Dessau, 30 January 1812 – d. Vienna, 28 March 1888), created Freifrau von Stolzenberg in 1842.
The poet Friedrich Hölderlin dedicated his 1800 poem Aus stillem Hauße senden - An eine Fürstin von Dessau to the Hereditary Princess.
Ancestry
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|1= 1. Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg
|2= 2. Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
|3= 3. Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt
|4= 4. Frederick IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
|5= 5. Countess Ulrike Louise of Solms-Braunfels
|6= 6. Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
|7= 7. Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken
|8= 8. Landgrave Kasimir Wilhelm of Hesse-Homburg
|9= 9. Countess Christine Charlotte of Solms-Braunfels
|10= 10. Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Solms-Braunfels
|11= 11. Countess Sophie Magdalena Benigna of Solms-Laubach-Utphe
|12= 12. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
|13= 13. Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg
|14= 14. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
|15= 15. Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken
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References
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- Jan Andres: [https://books.google.com/books?id=aOXjcsorHEwC&pg=PA91&dq=Amalie+Homburg+Dessau&lr=&hl=de Auf Poesie ist die Sicherheit der Throne gegründet S. 89 ff.]
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Category:House of Hesse-Homburg
Category:Landgravines of Germany
Category:People from Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Category:Daughters of monarchs