Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg | |
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Countess of Solms-Wildenfels | |
Born |
Großharthau, Kingdom of Saxony |
7 February 1898
Died | 4 November 1984 Klingen, West Germany |
(aged 86)
Spouse | Friedrich Magnus V, Count of Solms-Wildenfels |
Issue | Countess Anne of Solms-Wildenfels Friedrich Magnus VI, Count of Solms-Wildenfels Countess Jutta of Solms-Wildenfels Count Albert of Solms-Wildenfels Countess Kristin of Solms-Wildenfels |
House | House of Schwarzburg |
Father | Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg |
Mother | Princess Alexandra of Anhalt |
Marie Antoinette, Princess of Schwarzburg (German: Marie Antoinette Prinzessin zu Schwarzburg; 7 February 1898 – 4 November 1984) was the eldest child of Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg.
Marie Antoinette was born at Großharthau, Kingdom of Saxony, the first child of Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg (1860–1926), (son of Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Countess Helena of Raina) and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Anhalt (1868–1958), (daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg). Through her mother she was descendant of King Frederick William II of Prussia.
Marie Antoinette married on 4 January 1925 in Wildenfels to Friedrich Magnus V, Count of Solms-Wildenfels (1886–1945), only son of Friedrich Magnus IV, Count of Solms-Wildenfels and his wife, Anna Jacqueline, Countess of Bentinck-Aldenburg-Middachten.
They had five children:
On April 21, 1896 her father was recognised as a dynast of the House of Schwarzburg having previously not had dynastic rights due to his parents morganatic marriage. Following her brother's death in 1971 the House of Schwarzburg became extinct in the male line.