Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg

Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg

Polyxena of Hessen-Rotenburg-Rheinfels (Langenschwalbach, September 21 1706 - Turin, January 13 1735) was a Princess of Hessen-Rotenburg-Rheinfels and second wife of King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.

Polyxena was a daughter of Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (1684 - 1749) and Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1686-1753).

She married on August 20 1724 in ThornCharles Emmanuel, Crown Prince of Piedmont-Sardinia.
They had six children :
* Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (June 26 1726 - Oktober 16 1796), the next King of Sardinia.
* Eleonora Maria Teresa (February 28 1728 - August 14 1781), unmarried.
* Maria Felicita (March 19 1730 - May 13 1801), unmarried.
* Maria Luisa Gabriella (March 25 1729 - June 22 1767), a nun.
* Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (May 17 1731 - April 23 1735).
* Carlo Francesco Romualdo, Duke of Chablais (July 23 1733 - December 28 1733).

She died of disease at the age of 28 and was first buried in the Cathedral S. Giovanni Battista, since 1786 in the Basilica of Superga in Turin.

Sucession

Literature

* Domenico Carutti di Cantogno: "Storia del regno di Carlo Emanuele III." Turin 1859.

Link

[http://www.thepeerage.com/p11446.htm#i114453 The peerage]


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