Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg

Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg, born 20 August 1727 (20 July, according to other sources) at Gedern, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, in the then Holy Roman Empire, was a daughter of Georg August, Count of Erbach-Schönberg, and Ferdinande Henriette, Countess of Stolberg-Gedern. She died at Ebersdorf, Thuringia, on 22 April 1796, at age 69.

Family

She married Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, on 28 June 1754 at Thurnau, Bavaria, and had seven children, all of them born at Ebersdorf, Reuss-Jhungere-Linie, Thuringia.

1. Heinrich XLVI (b. Ebersdorf, 14 May 1755 - d. Ebersdorf, 18 April 1757).
2. Augusta Caroline Sophia (b. Ebersdorf, 19 January 1757 - d. Coburg, 16 November 1831), crowned Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürstin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806; married on 13 June 1777 to Duke Franz of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
3. Louise Christine (b. Ebersdorf, 2 June 1759 - d. Lobenstein, 5 December 1840), crowned Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürstin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806; married on 1 June 1781 to Prince Heinrich XLIII of Reuss-Köstritz.
4. Heinrich LI (b. Ebersdorf, 16 May 1761 - d. Ebersdorf, 10 July 1822), crowned Prince of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürst Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806.
5. Ernestine Ferdinande (b. Ebersdorf, 28 April 1762 - d. Ebersdorf, 19 May 1763).
6. Heinrich LIII Count of Reuss (b. Ebersdorf, 24 May 1765 - d. Ebersdorf, 28 June 1770).
7. Henriette (b. Ebersdorf, 9 May 1767 - d. Coburg, 3 September 1801), married on 4 July 1787 to Prince Karl of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg.

External links

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Name	Karoline Ernestine Of Erbach-Schonberg, Countess
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Date of birth	1727
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Date of death	1796
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