Henriette Caroline Friedericke (Jagemann) von Heygendorff (1777 - 1848)

Born 25 Jan 1777 in Weimar, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Died 10 Jul 1848 at age 71 in Dresden, Sachsen, Deutscher Bund

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Biography

Caroline (Jagemann) von Heygendorff is Notable.

Baroness Caroline Jagemann von Heygendorff (25 January 1777, in Weimar – 10 July 1848, in Dresden) was a major German tragedienne and singer.

She was the daughter of the scholar and librarian Christian Joseph Jagemann (1735–1804), and sister of the painter Ferdinand Jagemann (1780–1820). She studied first at the Weimar Princely Free Zeichenschule, where her brother was later a lecturer. From 1790 she trained in acting and singing in Mannheim under August Iffland and Heinrich Beck.

She was a mistress of Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the father of her three children:

1. Karl Wolfgang Freiherr von Heygendorff (Weimar, 25 December 1806 – Dresden, 17 February 1895)
2. August von Heygendorff (Weimar, 10 August 1810 – Dresden, 23 January 1874)
3. Mariana von Heygendorff (Weimar, 8 April 1812 – Gravenhage, 10 August 1836), married on 15 October 1835 to Daniel, Baron Tindal

In about 1812 she also adopted an infant, Laura Chevillard, the daughter of an officer in Napoleon's army.

In 1809 her lover, Grand Duke Karl August, made her "Freifrau (Baroness) von Heygendorff" and left her Heygendorf manor. Witnessed by the Grand Duke, their son Karl was officially granted the Heygendorff title on 16 May 1809 and he and his children entered the Saxon grand-ducal nobility.

Caroline Jagemann lived in Weimar, then the capital of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, until Duke Karl August’s death in 1828. From that time Caroline lived alternately in Mannheim, Berlin and Dresden.

Caroline died in Dresden on 10 July 1848 and is buried there.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #135506887

• Wikipedia entry for Karoline Jagemann