Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck

Amalia Catharina (8 August 1640 – 4 January 1697), Countess of Erbach-Erbach, was a German poet and composer. She was born in Arolsen to Count Philipp Theodor von Waldeck-Eisenberg and the Countess Marie Magdalene of Nassau-Siegen. In 1664, she married George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach, the son of George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg. She published a number of Pietist poems and songs in Hildburghausen in 1692. They were meant for private household devotion. There were 67 poems, some of which had simple melodies and a figured bass.[1]

Issue

She and her husband had sixteen children:[2][3]

  • Henriette (27 September 1665 – 28 September 1665).
  • Henriette Juliane (15 October 1666 – 27 February 1684).
  • Philipp Louis, Count of Erbach-Erbach (10 June 1669 – 17 June 1720).
  • Charles Albert Louis (16 June 1670 – k.a. Dapfing a.d.Donau, 18 August 1704).
  • George Albert (born and died 1 July 1671).
  • Amalie Katharina (13 May 1672 – 18 June 1676).
  • Frederick Charles (19 April 1673 – 20 April 1673).
  • A son (born and died 16 September 1674).
  • Wilhelmine Sophie (16 February 1675 – 20 August 1675).
  • Magdalena Charlotte (6 February 1676 – 3 December 1676).
  • Wilhelm Louis (21 March 1677 – 19 February 1678).
  • Amalie Katharina (born and died 18 February 1678).
  • Fredericka Charlotte (19 April 1679 – 21 April 1679).
  • Frederick Charles, Count of Erbach-Limpurg (21 May 1680 – 20 February 1731).
  • Ernest (23 September 1681 – 2 March 1684).
  • Sophia Albertine (30 July 1683 – 4 September 1742), married on 4 February 1704 to Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

References

Notes
  1. Blankenburg
  2. Georg Ludwig I, Graf von Erbach-Erbach in: geneall.net [retrieved 9 May 2015].
  3. Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the House of Erbach". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 9 May 2015.]


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