Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau [SEP] mother
Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau
Princess Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau (7 December 17205 December 1793) was the fifth (fourth surviving) and youngest daughter of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, by his morganatic wife, Anna Louise Föhse.
Life.
In 1741 the 21-year-old princess Henriette Amalie gave birth to an extramarital son. When she refused to marry the father — the son of a court retainer — she was banished from the Dessau court. During the next eleven years she lived
, Amalie was also a member of the House of Ascania and Hereditary Princess of Anhalt-Dessau.
Family.
Amalie was the fifth child of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg and his wife Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Marriage and issue.
Amalie married Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, only surviving child of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife Margravine Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, on