Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg | |
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Duchess consort of Saxe-Weisselfels | |
Tenure | 1672–1680 |
Born | Schaumburg an der Lahn | 3 June 1647
Died | 4 November 1687 Dahme | (aged 40)
Spouse | Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels |
Issue | Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme Prince Maurice |
House | Runkel |
Father | George William, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg |
Mother | Sophia 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]