Countess Palatine Anne Christine of Sulzbach
| Anne Christine of Sulzbach | |
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| Princess of Piedmont | |
| Tenure | 15 March 1722 – 12 March 1723 |
| Born |
5 February 1704 Palace of Sulzbach-Rosenberg |
| Died | 12 March 1723 (aged 19) Royal Palace of Turin, Turin |
| Burial | Basilica of Superga, Turin, Italy |
| Spouse | Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont |
| Issue | Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy |
| House | Wittelsbach |
| Father | Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach |
| Mother | Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg |
Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (Anne Christine Louise; 5 February 1704 – 12 March 1723), also called Christine of the Palatinate, was a princess of the Bavarian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire and first wife of Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont, heir to the throne of the kingdom of Sardinia. She died during childbirth at the age of 19.
Anne Christine Louise was born a Countess Palatine of Sulzbach. She was the daughter of Theodore Eustace, Prince Palatine of Sulzbach (1659–1732), the head of a Roman Catholic cadet branch of Bavaria's Wittelsbach dynasty, and Princess Eleonore of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg (1675-1720), daughter of William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg. Her parents had married in 1692, Anne Christine being their eighth child.
Christine's older brother John Christian (1700-1733) succeeded their father as Prince Palatine, also becoming Margrave jure uxoris of Berg-op-Zoom: His son, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, was the last of the senior branch of the House of Wittelsbach. Her older sister Francisca Christina became Princes-Abbess of Thorn and, later, of the more important immediate convent of Essen. Christine was a first cousin of her husband's subsequent wife Polyxena of Hesse, Queen consort of Sardinia, of Caroline of Hesse, Princess de Condé, and of Christine of Hesse, Princess di Carignano.
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