Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg


Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was a Danish-German princess of the senior Glücksburg line of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the first Duchess of Augustenborg by marriage. Augustenborg palace, and as a consequence the nearby town, were named in honor of her.
The great-granddaughter of king Christian III of Denmark, she was the third daughter, eighth by birth, of Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Sophia Hedwig of Saxe-Lauenburg. She was sister of Sophia Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Family and children

On 15 June 1651, at Copenhagen, she married her first cousin Ernest Günther, son of Duke Alexander of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and his wife Countess Dorothea of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. They had ten children:
  1. Frederick
  2. Sofie Amalie
  3. Philipp Ernst
  4. Sofie Auguste
  5. Luise Charlotte, married on 1 January 1685 to Duke Frederick Louis of Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  6. Ernestine Justine
  7. Ernest Augustus
  8. Dorothea Luise, Abbess of Itzehoe in 1686-1721
  9. a child, born and died 18 December 1665
  10. Frederick William

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