Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg


Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg, was a German noblewoman member of the House of Runkel and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels.
Born in Schaumburg an der Lahn, she was the third of nineteen children born from the marriage of George William, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg in Schaumburg and Countess Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold. From her eighteen older and younger siblings, eleven survive adulthood: Simon Philipp, Frederick William, Maria Christiana, Sophia Magdalena, John Anton, Christoph Christian, Johanna Elisabeth, Angelika Catherine, Henry Christian Frederick Ernest, Georg II Charles Louis and Juliana Eleonore.

Life

In Halle on 29 January 1672, Johanna Walpurgis married Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels as his second wife. They had three children:
  1. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme.
  2. Maurice.
  3. Stillborn son.
Juliana Walpurgis died in Dahme aged 40, having survived her husband by seven years. She was buried in the Schlosskirche, Weissenfels.