Emilie of Promnitz-Pless
Christine Johanna Emilie, Princess of Anhalt-Köthen was the second wife and consort of Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
Biography
Countess Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless was born on 15 September 1708 in Żary, to Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz and his wife, Princess Anna Maria of Saxe-Weissenfels, the third daughter of Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg.On 14 January 1726, she married Prince Augustus Louis of Anhalt-Köthen in Żary. She was his second wife. His first wife, Agnes Wilhelmine von Wuthenau, with whom he was in a morganatic marriage, died in 1725. Emilie and Augustus Louis had five children:
- Christiane Anna Agnes, married on 12 July 1742 to Henry Ernest, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode.
- Frederick Augustus, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
- Johanna Wilhelmine, married on 17 December 1749 to Frederick, Prince of Carolath-Beuthen.
- Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
- Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless.
Emilie died on 20 February 1732 in Köthen. Later that year, her husband married her sister, Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless.