Louise Christine of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg

Louise Christine of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg
Duchess consort of Saxe-Weisselfels
Reign	1712-1736
Born	21 January 1675 Ortenberg
Died	16 May 1738 (aged 63) Weissenfels
Spouse	John George III, Count of Mansfeld-Eisleben Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
Father	Christoph Louis I, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg-Ortenberg
Mother	Agnes Elisabeth of Barby-Mühlingen

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.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4][5]

Louise Christine died in Weissenfels aged 63, having survived her second husband by twenty-three months. She was buried in the Schlosskirche, Weissenfels.^[6]

References

1. Christoph Ludwig I. Graf zu Stolberg-Ortenberg in: Genealogy Database by Herbert Stoyan [retrieved 10 October 2014].
2. Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the House of Stolberg". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
3. Note: some branches are very incomplete. Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the House of Mansfeld". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
4. Louise Christiane Gräfin zu Stolberg-Stolberg in: Genealogy Database by Herbert Stoyan [retrieved 10 October 2014].
5. Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the House of Wettin". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
6. Stolberg-Stolberg line in: Royaltyguide.nl [retrieved 10 October 2014].