Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg

Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg
Duchess consort of Saxe-Weisselfels
Tenure1672–1680
Born(1647-06-03)3 June 1647
Schaumburg an der Lahn
Died4 November 1687(1687-11-04) (aged 40)
Dahme
SpouseAugustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
IssueFrederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme
Prince Maurice
HouseRunkel
FatherGeorge William, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg
MotherSophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold

Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg (3 June 1647 – 4 November 1687), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Runkel (through female line surnamed Leiningen-Westerburg) and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels.

Born in Schaumburg an der Lahn, she was the third of nineteen children born from the marriage of Georg Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg in Schaumburg and Countess Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold. From her eighteen older and younger siblings, eleven survive adulthood: Simon Philipp, Frederick William, Maria Christiana (by marriage Countess Reuss of Lobenstein), Sophia Magdalena (by marriage Countess of Schönburg-Hartenstein), John Anton, Christoph Christian, Johanna Elisabeth (by her two marriages Countess of Wied-Runkel and Metternich-Winneburg), Angelika Catherine (by marriage Countess of Vasaborg), Henry Christian Frederick Ernest, Georg II Charles Louis and Juliana Eleonore (by marriage Countess of Metternich-Winneburg).[1][better source needed][2]

  1. ^ Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the House of Runkel". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 10 October 2014.[self-published source]
  2. ^ Georg Wilhelm Graf v.Leiningen-Westerburg in: Genealogy Database by Herbert Stoyan Archived 2014-10-15 at the Wayback Machine [retrieved 10 October 2014].