Bavarian Royalty. She was born in Strasbourg as the oldest daughter of Maximilian Joseph von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, who would later become the first Bavarian King, and Auguste Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was supposed to marry the prince of Baden, but the engagement was dissolved and she was married to Eugène de Beauharnais instead. She was very unhappy to marry him in the beginning, but the couple soon fell in love. After Napoleons fall in 1814 they retired to Munich and Eugène was created Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstädt by her father.
Bavarian Royalty. She was born in Strasbourg as the oldest daughter of Maximilian Joseph von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, who would later become the first Bavarian King, and Auguste Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was supposed to marry the prince of Baden, but the engagement was dissolved and she was married to Eugène de Beauharnais instead. She was very unhappy to marry him in the beginning, but the couple soon fell in love. After Napoleons fall in 1814 they retired to Munich and Eugène was created Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstädt by her father.
Bio by: Lutetia
Family Members
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Ludwig I. von Bayern
1786–1868
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Amalie Marie Auguste von Bayern
1790–1794
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Karoline Charlotte Auguste von Bayern
1792–1873
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Karl Theodor Maximilian August von Bayern
1795–1875
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Stillborn Son Von Wittelsbach
1799–1799
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Maximilian Joseph Karl Friedrich von Wittelsbach
1800–1803
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Elisabeth Luise of Bavaria
1801–1873
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Amalia Augusta von Bayern
1801–1877
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Maria Leopoldina von Bayern
1805–1877
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Sophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine Of Bavaria
1805–1872
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Ludovika Wilhelmine von Bayern
1808–1892
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Maximiliane Josepha Karoline von Wittelsbach
1810–1821
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Josefina
1807–1876
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Eugénie Hortense Auguste Napoléone de Beauharnais von Leuchtenberg
1808–1847
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Auguste Charles de Beauharnais
1810–1835
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Amélie de Beauharnais
1812–1873
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Theodolinde de Beauharnais
1814–1857
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Caroline Clotilde de Beauharnais
1816–1816
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Maximilien Joseph Eugène Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais
1817–1852
Flowers
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