Countess Klara Marie of Schmising-Kerssenbrock

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HRH Dowager Duchess Klara Marie of Saxe-Meiningen
Titles Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen

Countess of Schmising-Kerssenbrock

Reign 29 December 1941 – 6 January 1946
Coronation 23 June 1942
Predecessor Princess Charlotte of Prussia
Successor Vera von Bernstein
Biographical Information
Born 31 May 1895

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Died 10 February 1992 (aged 96)

Meiningen, Saxe-Meiningen, Germany

Spouse Duke Georg III of Saxe-Meiningen

(m. 1919; w. 1946)

Issue Prince Anton Ulrich

Prince Frederick Alfred

Princess Marie Elisabeth

Princess Regina

Name Klara Marie Agnes Huberta Gabriele
House Korff (by birth)

Saxe-Meiningen (by marriage)

Father Alfred, Count of Schmising-Kerssenbrock
Mother Helene von Hilgers
Religion Evangelical Church of Germany

General

Life[edit | edit source]

TBA

Marriage and Issue[edit | edit source]

TBA

Photo Name Birth Death Marriage
Prince Anton Ulrich 23 December 1919 20 May 1940 (aged 20) Died unmarried and without issue
Prince Frederick Alfred 5 April 1921 18 September 1997 (aged 76) Monk
Princess Marie Elisabeth 18 December 1922 31 March 1923 (aged 3 months) Died in infancy
Princess Regina 6 January 1925 3 February 2010 (aged 85) Emperor Otto of Austria (m. 1951); had issue

Titles and Honours[edit | edit source]

  • 1895-1919 Countess Klara Marie of Schmising-Kerssenbrock
  • 1919-1941 Princess Klara Marie of Saxe-Meiningen
  • 1941-1946 Klara Marie, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
  • 1946-1984 Klara Marie, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
  • 1984-1992 Dowager Duchess Klara Marie of Saxe-Meiningen

Ancestry[edit | edit source]

Parents Grandparents Great-Grandparents Great-Great-Grandparents
Alfred, Count of Schmising-Kerssenbrock Maximilian, Count of Schmising-Kerssenbrock

Countess Gabriele of Mirbach

Franz Xaver, Count of Schmising-Kerssenbrock

Countess Julie of Stolberg-Stolberg

Gotthard, Count of Mirbach

Countess Mathilde Friederike of Rayhofen

Clemens August Heinrich, Count of Schmising-Kerssenbrock

Elisabeth Bernardine von Nagel
Friedrich Leopold, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg
Countess Sophie of Redem
Friedrich Gotthard, Count of Mirbach
Maria Barbara von Holy
Franz Joseph, Count of Rayhofen
Helene von Haugwitz-Biskupitz

Helene von Hilgers Richard, Baron Hilgers

Agnes Zementsch

Baron Heinrich Hilgers

Helena von Hontheim

Eduard Zementsch

Clara Lucius

Baron Franz Jacob Hilgers

Ferdinande von Francken
Nikolaus von Hotheim
Barbara Gattermann
Andreas Zementsch
Anne Faber
Sebastian Lucius
Maria Anna Hebel

Notes[edit | edit source]

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