Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg | |
Consort: | yes |
Succession: | Duchess consort of Saxe-Weisselfels |
Reign: | 1672–1680 |
House: | Runkel |
Father: | George William, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg |
Mother: | Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold |
Spouse: | Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels |
Issue: | Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme Prince Maurice |
Birth Date: | 3 June 1647 |
Birth Place: | Schaumburg an der Lahn |
Death Place: | Dahme |
Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg (3 June 1647 – 4 November 1687), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Runkel (through female line surnamed Leiningen-Westerburg) and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels.
Born in Schaumburg an der Lahn, she was the third of nineteen children born from the marriage of Georg Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg in Schaumburg and Countess Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold. From her eighteen older and younger siblings, eleven survive adulthood: Simon Philipp, Frederick William, Maria Christiana (by marriage Countess Reuss of Lobenstein), Sophia Magdalena (by marriage Countess of Schönburg-Hartenstein), John Anton, Christoph Christian, Johanna Elisabeth (by her two marriages Countess of Wied-Runkel and Metternich-Winneburg), Angelika Catherine (by marriage Countess of Vasaborg), Henry Christian Frederick Ernest, Georg II Charles Louis and Juliana Eleonore (by marriage Countess of Metternich-Winneburg).[1] [2]
In Halle on 29 January 1672, Johanna Walpurgis married Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels as his second wife. They had three children:[3] [4]
Juliana Walpurgis died in Dahme aged 40, having survived her husband by seven years. She was buried in the Schlosskirche, Weissenfels.
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