Louise Christine of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg

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Louise Christine of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg
Duchess consort of Saxe-Weissenfels
Tenure1712-1736
Born(1675-01-21)21 January 1675
Ortenberg
Died16 May 1738(1738-05-16) (aged 63)
Weissenfels
Spouse John George III, Count of Mansfeld-Eisleben
Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
House Stolberg
Father Christoph Louis I, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg
Mother Louise Christine of Hesse-Darmstadt

Louise Christine of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg (21 January 1675 - 16 May 1738), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Stolberg and by her two marriages Countess of Mansfeld-Eisleben and Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels.

Born in Ortenberg, she was the sixth of the eight children born from the marriage of Christoph Louis I, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg and Countess Louise Christine of Hesse-Darmstadt. From her seven older and younger siblings, four survive adulthood: Georg, Hereditary Prince of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg, Sophie Eleonore, Christoph Frederick and Jost Christian.

Life

In Stolberg on 13 December 1704, Louise Christine married firstly John George III, Count of Mansfeld-Eisleben. They had no children. Count John George III died on 1 January 1710.

In Stolberg on 11 May 1712, Louise Christine married secondly Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. For this occasion, the Elector Frederick August I of Saxony, had the Weissenfelser Hunt Cup (der Weißenfelser Jagdpokal) made as a gift for the couple. It was a costly and complex masterpiece of gold forging executed by the brothers Johann Melchior and George Christoph Dinglinger; it took as its artistic inspiration the duke's preference for the hunt. The cup stayed in the possession of the ducal house of Saxe-Weissenfels until it became extinct; after this, it again came into the possession of the Electorate of Saxony and can be admired today in the Green Vault (de: Grünes Gewölbe). They had no children.

Louise Christine died in Weissenfels aged 63, having survived her second husband by twenty-three months. She was buried in the Schlosskirche, Weissenfels.

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    Louise Christine of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg
    Born: 21 January 1675 Died: 16 May 1738
    German royalty
    Vacant
    Title last held by
    Fredericka Elisabeth of Saxe-Eisenach
    Duchess consort of Saxe-Weissenfels
    1712-1736
    Succeeded by