Princess Christine Louise | |
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Princess Christine Louise
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Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | |
Reign | 1731-1735 |
Predecessor | Elisabeth Sophie Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Norburg |
Successor | Antoinette Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
Born |
Oettingen |
20 March 1671
Died | 3 September 1747 Blankenberg |
(aged 76)
Spouse | Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
House | Oettingen-Oettingen |
Father | Albert Ernest I, Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen |
Mother | Duchess Christine Friederike of Württemberg |
Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (20 March 1671 in Oettingen – 3 September 1747 in Blankenberg) was Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was the maternal grandmother of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia, Queen Juliane Marie of Denmark and Norway and Tsar Peter II of Russia; the maternal great-grandmother of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Tsar Ivan VI of Russia and Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; the maternal great-great-grandmother of King Leopold I of Belgium and the maternal great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Christine Louise was the third daughter of Albert Ernest I, Prince of Oettingen and Duchess Christine Friederike of Württemberg (daughter of Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg).
She married Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg at Aurich in 1690. They had the following children who reached adulthood:
The marriages of her three daughters were arranged by her ambitious father-in-law, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.