Théodolinde de Beauharnais | |||||
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Princess of Leuchtenberg Countess Wilhelm of Württemberg |
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Théodolinde in 1840, by Friedrich Dürck
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Born |
Mantua, Kingdom of Italy |
13 April 1814||||
Died | 1 April 1857 Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg |
(aged 42)||||
Burial | Ludwigsburg Palace | ||||
Spouse | Count Wilhlm of Württemberg | ||||
Issue | Augusta Eugenie, Countess Rudolf von Thun und Hohenstein Princess Marie Josephine Princess Eugenia Amalie Mathilde, Princess of Oriolo and Viano |
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House |
House of Württemberg House of Beauharnais |
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Father | Eugène de Beauharnais | ||||
Mother | Princess Augusta of Bavaria | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
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Théodolinde Louise Eugénie Auguste Napoléone de Beauharnais |
Théodolinde de Beauharnais, Princess of Leuchtenberg (13 April 1814 – 1 April 1857), Countess of Württemberg by marriage, was a Franco-German princess. She was a granddaughter of Joséphine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife.
The fifth of the seven children of Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), Duke of Leuchtenberg, and his wife, Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788–1851), Théodolinde was born in Mantua, Italy, and presumably named for Theudelinda, a 6th-century queen of the Lombards. She had two brothers (Auguste and Maximilian) and three surviving sisters (Joséphine, Eugénie, and Amélie). Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte and former Empress of France, was her paternal grandmother. The latter, however, died about six weeks after Théodolinde's birth.
Through her marriage to Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Ferdinand, Count of Württemberg, Théodolinde became Countess (Gräfin) of Württemberg, but died before her husband was created Duke of Urach. She died after a short illness on the morning of 1 April 1857 in Stuttgart, Germany, and was buried in the family vault at Ludwigsburg Palace, with her heart buried at the Hauskapelle of the palace in Munich.