Category:Princess Augusta of Bavaria

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Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (German:Augusta Amalia Ludovika Georgia von Bayern) (born Strassburg, 21 June 1788; died Munich, 13 May 1851) was the second child and first daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. Augusta married Eugène de Beauharnais, only son of Josephine de Beauharnais and Alexandre de Beauharnais and stepson of Napoleon I of France.

Augusta and Eugène had seven children:

• Josephine of Leuchtenberg (1807-1876) became the Queen Consort to Oscar I of Sweden, himself the son of Napoleon's old love, Desirée Clary.
• Eugénie de Beauharnais (1808-1847). Married Konstantin, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
• en:Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810 - 1835) married Maria II of Portugal. There was no issue from this marriage
• Amélie of Leuchtenberg, (July 31, 1812 - January 26, 1873) married Pedro I of Brazil (father of Maria II of Portugal) and became Empress of Brazil
• Princess Théodelinde de Beauharnais (1814-1857). Married en:Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach.
• Carolina (1816)
• Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852), married Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, eldest daughter of Nicholas I of Russia, and received the title of "Prince Romanovsky", addressed as "His Imperial Highness", in 1852.