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Louise, Princess Reuss of Greiz

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Princess Wilhelmine Louise
Princess Reuss of Greiz
Born(1765-09-28)28 September 1765
The Hague, Dutch Republic
Died10 October 1837(1837-10-10) (aged 72)
Greiz, Principality of Reuss-Greiz
Spouse
(m. 1786; died 1817)
Issue
HouseNassau-Weilburg
FatherCharles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg
MotherPrincess Carolina of Orange-Nassau

Wilhelmine Louise, Princess Reuss of Greiz, born as Princess Wilhelmine Luise of Nassau-Weilburg (28 September 1765, in The Hague – 10 October 1837, in Greiz) was a German princess. She was a Princess-consort of Reuss of Greiz from 1800 until 1817, and was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian, Duke of Nassau-Weilburg and Carolina of Orange-Nassau, daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange.

Marriage and children

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Louise married on 9 January 1786 in Kirchheimbolanden to Heinrich XIII, future Prince Reuss of Greiz (1747–1817), third child of Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and his wife, Countess Conradine Reuss of Köstritz (daughter of Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Köstritz and Baroness Marie Eleonore Emma of Promnitz-Dittersbach).

They had four children:

  • Prince Heinrich XVIII Reuss of Greiz (31 March 1787 – 31 March 1787)
  • Unnamed daughter (28 November 1788 – 28 November 1788)
  • Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1 March 1790 – 31 October 1836), married in 1822 to Princess Gasparine of Rohan-Rochefort, had issue.
  • Heinrich XX, Prince Reuss of Greiz (29 June 1794 – 8 November 1859), married firstly in 1834 to Princess Sophie of Löwenstein-Wertheim- Rosenberg, no issue, Princess Sophie died in 1838; Married secondly in 1839 to Landgravine Karoline of Hesse-Homburg, had issue.

Ancestry

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  • dr. A.W.E. Dek, Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau, Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel, 1970.
  • Michel Huberty, Alain Giraud, F. & B. Magdelaine, l’Allemagne Dynastique. Tome I Hesse-Reuss-Saxe, Alain Giraud, Le Perreux, 1976.
  • Michel Huberty, Alain Giraud, F. & B. Magdelaine, l’Allemagne Dynastique. Tome III Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg, Alain Giraud, Le Perreux, 1981.