Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

, 21 June 1788 – Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, 13 May 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Marriage and issue

Although originally promised in marriage to the heir of Baden, Charles, the engagement was broken at the behest of Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

. On 14 January 1806 in Munich, Augusta married Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Français, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam was the first child and only son of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la...

, only son of Josephine de Beauharnais

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she had been imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's...

 and Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais

Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais

Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais, Vicomte de Beauharnais was a French political figure and general during the French Revolution...

 and stepson of Napoleon. Although a diplomatic marriage, this union would turn out to be a happy one. In 1817, Augusta's father created his son-in-law Duke of Leuchtenberg

Duke of Leuchtenberg

Duke of Leuchtenberg was a title created by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria and awarded to his son Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus. Little is known about this title until its re-creation by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria on 14 November 1817 and awarded to his son-in-law Eugène de Beauharnais...

 and Prince of Eichstädt, with the title Royal Highness

Royal Highness

Royal Highness is a style ; plural Royal Highnesses...

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Augusta and Eugène had seven children:

• Josephine
  Josephine of Leuchtenberg
  Joséphine of Leuchtenberg was Queen consort of Sweden and Norway as the wife of King Oscar I...
  
   (1807–1876), became the Queen Consort to Oscar I of Sweden
  Oscar I of Sweden
  Oscar I was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm . Oscar's father was the first ruler of the current House of Bernadotte...
  
  , himself the son of Napoleon's old love, Désirée Clary
  Désirée Clary
  Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary , one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte, was a Frenchwoman who became Queen of Sweden and Norway as the consort of King Charles XIV John, a former French General. She officially changed her name there to Desideria, a Latin version of her original name...
  
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• Eugénie
  Eugénie de Beauharnais
  Eugénie Hortense Auguste Napoléone, known as Eugénie de Beauharnais, princess of Leuchtenberg was a Franco-German princess. She was the second daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais and Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and a member of the house of Beauharnais...
  
   (1808–1847). Married Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
  Hohenzollern-Hechingen
  Hohenzollern-Hechingen was a county and principality in southwestern Germany. Its rulers belonged to a branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.-History:...
  
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• Auguste
  Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg
  Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg was the first Prince consort of Maria II of Portugal.-Family:...
  
  , 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810–1835). Married Maria II of Portugal. There was no issue from this marriage.
• Amélie (1812–1873). Married Pedro I of Brazil (father of Maria II of Portugal and Peter II of Brazil) and became Empress of Brazil.
• Theodelinde
  Théodolinde de Beauharnais
  Théodolinde de Beauharnais, Princess of Leuchtenberg, Countess of Wurttemberg was a Franco-German princess.- Biography :...
  
   (1814–1857). Married Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach
  Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach
  Count Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Ferdinand of Württemberg, 1st Duke of Urach , was the son of Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg , younger brother of King Frederick I of Württemberg, by his morganatic wife, Baroness Wilhelmine von Tunderfeldt-Rhodis , who had married in 1800...
  
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• Carolina (1816).
• Maximilian
  Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg
  Maximilian Joseph Eugene Auguste Napoleon de Beauharnais , 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, 3rd Prince of Venice Prince des Français and Hereditary Prince of the Kingdom of Italy and claimant to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was the husband of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of...
  
   (1817–1852). Married Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, eldest daughter of Nicholas I of Russia
  Nicholas I of Russia
  Nicholas I , was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs. On the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historical zenith spanning over 20 million square kilometers...
  
  , and received the title of "Prince Romanovsky", addressed as "His Imperial Highness", in 1852.

Ancestry