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Emilie of Promnitz-Pless

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Emilie of Promnitz-Pless
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Christine Johanna Emilie, Princess of Anhalt-Köthen (née Countess Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless; 15 September 1708 – 20 February 1732) was the second wife and consort of Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.

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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 (1683–1731), 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.[1] Emilie and Augustus Louis had five children:[2][3]

On 19 November 1728, her husband succeeded his brother, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, as the Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.

Emilie died on 20 February 1732 in Köthen. Later that year, her husband married her sister, Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless.

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