Princess Sophie of Luxembourg

Princess Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine of Luxembourg (14 February 1902 – 24 May 1941) was the sixth and youngest daughter of Grand Duke William IV and his wife, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal.

Princess Sophie of Luxembourg
Princess Sophie of Saxony
Born(1902-02-14)14 February 1902
Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg
Died24 May 1941(1941-05-24) (aged 39)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Burial
Katholische Hofkirche, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
SpousePrince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony
IssuePrince Dedo
Prince Timo
Prince Gero
Full name
French: Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine
HouseHouse of Nassau-Weilburg
House of Wettin
FatherWilliam IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
MotherInfanta Marie Anne of Portugal
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Life

Sophie was born in Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg. Two of Sophie's elder sisters reigned as grand duchesses of Luxembourg: Marie-Adélaïde and Charlotte.

Sophie married Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony, youngest son of the last Saxon monarch Frederick Augustus III and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany, on 12 April 1921 at Schloss Hohenburg. Sophie and Ernst Heinrich had three sons, three grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren:

  • Prince Albrecht Friedrich August Johannes Gregor Dedo of Saxony (9 May 1922 in Munich);-6 December 2009 in Radebeul, Germany.[1]
  • Prince Georg Timo Michael Nikolaus Maria of Saxony (22 December 1923 in Munich-22 April 1982 in Emden) married Margrit Lucas on 7 August 1952 at Mülheim. They have two children, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He remarried Charlotte Schwindack on 3 February 1966, from whom he was divorced on 6 February 1973. He remarried Erina Eilts on 26 March 1974. He has an illegitimate son and four grandchildren.
  • Prince Rupprecht Hubertus Gero Maria of Saxony (12 September 1925 in Munich-10 April 2003 in Picton, Ontario, Canada)

Sophie died on 24 May 1941 at age 39 in Munich of pneumonia. Following her death, Ernst Heinrich married secondly and morganatically to Virginia Dulon on 28 June 1947 in Paris.

Ancestry

References
  1. See wikipedia article on Ernst Heinrich of Saxony.
  • Généalogie des rois et des princes de Jean-Charles Volkmann Edit. Jean-Paul Giserot (1998)
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