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Princess Augusta
Duchess of Leuchtenberg
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler
Born	(1788-06-21)21 June 1788 Strasbourg
Died	13 May 1851(1851-05-13) (aged 62) Munich
Spouse	Eugène de Beauharnais ​ ​ (m. 1806; died 1824)​
Issue	Joséphine, Queen of Sweden and Norway Eugénie, Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen Auguste, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg Amélie, Empress of Brazil Théodoline, Countess Wilhelm of Württemberg Princess Carolina Maximilian, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
Full name German: Auguste Amalie Ludovika Georgia French: Auguste Amélie Louise Georgie
House	Wittelsbach
Father	Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
Mother	Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt

Coat of arms of Auguste Amélie de Bavière.

Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (German: Auguste Amalie Ludovika Georgia von Bayern) (Strasbourg, 21 June 1788 – Munich, 13 May 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. By marriage, she was a French Princess.

Early life

Princess Augusta with her brother and mother

Augusta-Amelie of Bavaria was the eldest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. She lost her mother in 1796 from lung problems and her father remarried a year later with the young Caroline of Baden, who imposed on her husband's court a seriousness that some thought was beneficial. At first, Augusta did not like her stepmother like her younger siblings Karl Theodore and Charlotte did, as she was still attached to her late mother, but Caroline and Augusta's relationship improved over time.

In 1795, at the death of his elder brother, her father Maximilian became reigning duke of Zweibrücken but his States were occupied by the troops of the young First French Republic. In 1799, at the death of his distant cousin Charles Theodore, Maximilian became count-elector Palatine of the Rhine and Duke-Elector of Bavaria under the name of Maximilian III.

Marriage and issue

Although originally promised in marriage to the heir of Baden, Charles, the engagement was broken at the behest of Napoleon I of France. On 14 January 1806 in Munich, Augusta married Eugène de Beauharnais, only son of Josephine de Beauharnais and Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais and stepson of Napoleon.^[1] In return, Napoleon raised Bavaria from a state to a Kingdom. Although a diplomatic marriage, this union would turn out to be a happy one. In 1817, Augusta's father created his son-in-law Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstädt, with the style Royal Highness.

Augusta and Eugène had seven children:

• Princess Joséphine Maximiliane Eugénie Napoléonne de Beauharnais (1807-1876); married Oscar I of Sweden, himself the son of Napoleon's old love, Désirée Clary.
• Princess Eugénie Hortense Auguste de Beauharnais (1808-1847); married Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
• Prince Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810-1835); married Maria II of Portugal. There was no issue from this marriage.
• Princess Amélie Auguste Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais (31 July 1812 - 26 January 1873); married Pedro I of Brazil (father of Maria II of Portugal and Pedro II of Brazil) and became Empress of Brazil.
• Princess Theodelinde Louise Eugénie Auguste Napoléone de Beauharnais (1814-1857); married Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach.
• Princess Carolina Clotilde de Beauharnais (1816)
• Prince Maximilian Josèphe Eugène Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais (1817-1852); married Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, eldest daughter of Nicholas I of Russia, and received the title of "Prince Romanovsky" with the style "Imperial Highness", in 1852.

Death

Augusta survived her husband by 20 years before dying in 1851 at the age of 63 in Munich. At that time, France's president was the nephew of the Duchess of Leuchtenberg, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the son of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, the sister of Prince Eugène.

Gallery

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  A young Princess Augusta.

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  Augusta's marriage to Eugène de Beauharnais, by François Guillaume Menageot

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  Augusta with her daughters Joséphine and Eugénie

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  Tomb of Augusta of Bavaria

Honours

•  Kingdom of Portugal: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Isabel, 1 December 1834^[2]

Ancestry

References

External links

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