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Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen (12 May 1703, Castell - 8 January 1777, Herrnhut) was a German noblewoman. By birth she was a member of the House of Castell-Remlingen and by marriage member of the House of Reuss.
She was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen by his second wife, Countess Dorothea Renata of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (1669-1743). Count Wolfgang Dietrich had fourteen children altogether, of whom Sophie Theodora was the twelfth child and tenth daughter.
On 7 September 1721 she married Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, with whom she had thirteen children:
Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf, was by marriage the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was the grandmother and godmother of both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband and cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The House of Castell is a German noble family of mediatised counts of the old Holy Roman Empire. In 1901, the heads of the two family branches, Castell-Castell and Castell-Rüdenhausen, were each granted the hereditary title of Prince by Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria.
Saalburg-Ebersdorf is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany close to the Bavarian border. It is situated on the river Saale, 10 km southwest of Schleiz, 30 km west of Plauen and 30 km north-west of Hof.
Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was a reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, one of the ruling Thuringian dukes of the House of Wettin. As progenitor of a line of Coburg princes who, in the 19th and 20th centuries, ascended the thrones of several European realms, he is a patrilineal ancestor of the royal houses of Belgium and Bulgaria, as well as of several queens consort and empress consort of Mexico in the 1860s.
Princess Antoinette Ernestine Amalie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was a German princess of the House of Wettin. By marriage, she was a Duchess of Württemberg. Through her eldest surviving son, she is the ancestress of today's (Catholic) House of Württemberg.
Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen was the reigning Fürst of the Principality of Leiningen. After his death, his widow, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, married a son of George III of the United Kingdom and became the mother of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom.
Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf, was ruler of the German county Reuss-Ebersdorf from 1747 until his death in 1779. He succeeded his father as Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf.
Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz was the first Prince Reuss of Greiz from 1778 to 1800.
Princess Sophie Friederike Karoline Luise of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was the princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the sister of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and King Leopold I of Belgium, and the maternal aunt of Queen Victoria. By marriage, she was the Countess of Mensdorff-Pouilly.
Countess Johanna Sophia of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was a German noblewoman, by birth member of the House of Hohenlohe and by marriage Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe.
Henry Frederick, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the youngest child of Count Philip Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Countess Anna Maria of Solms-Sonnewalde.
Sophie Christiane of Wolfstein was Countess of Wolfstein by birth and Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach by marriage.
Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf was a member of the House of Reuss Younger Line and Count Ebersdorf from 1711 until his death
Erdmann II, Count von Promnitz was Lord of Żary and Trzebiel in Lower Lusatia, and Pszczyna in Upper Silesia.
Albert Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the oldest child of Count Henry Frederick of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1625–1699) and his second wife Countess Juliana Dorothea of Castell-Remlingen (1640–1706).
Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, was a member of the House of Reuss. He was Count of Lobenstein, and from 1678, Count of Ebersdorf. He was the founder of Reuss-Ebersdorf line.
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Erdmuthe Dorothea, Countess of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf was a German Pietist and hymn writer.
Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg was a daughter of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and his second wife, Juliana of Stolberg. Magdalena was a sister of William the Silent.
Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen was a German nobleman. From 1668 until his death he was the ruler of the county of Castell-Remlingen, sharing power with his brother Friedrich Magnus of Castell-Remlingen. He also held other offices in the Margraviate of Ansbach and the Electoral Palatinate.