Karl August (VonSachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1757 - 1828)

Born 3 Sep 1757 in Weimar, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Died 14 Jun 1828 at age 70 in Graditz, Torgau, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutscher Bund

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Karl August VonSachsen-Weimar-Eisenach was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Karl August (VonSachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach is Notable.

Born in Weimar, he was the eldest son of Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach (Ernest Augustus II), and Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. His father died when he was only nine months old (28 May 1758), and the boy was brought up under the regency and supervision of his mother.

He was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach (in personal union) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation (as a political union) in 1809, and grand duke from 1815 until his death.

On 3 October 1775 he married Princess and Landgravine Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt (30 January 1757 – 14 February 1830), the daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Karl August and Luise Auguste had seven children, of whom only three survived to adulthood:

1. Luise Auguste Amalie (b. Weimar, 3 February 1779 – d. Weimar, 24 March 1784).
2. a daughter (b. and d. Weimar, 10 September 1781).
3. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 2 February 1783 – d. Schloss Belvedere, near Weimar, 8 July 1853).
4. a son (b. and d. Weimar, 26 February 1785).
5. Caroline Louise (b. Weimar, 18 July 1786 – d. Ludwigslust, 20 January 1816), married on 1 July 1810 to Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
6. a son (b. and d. Weimar, 13 April 1789).
7. Karl Bernhard (b. Weimar, 30 May 1792 – d. Liebenstein, 31 July 1862).

In addition, Karl August acknowledged five children by him born out of wedlock:

1. With Eva Dorothea Wiegand (b. 1755 – d. 1828)
   1. Johann Karl Sebastian Klein (b. Stützerbach, 9 June 1779 – d. Weimar, 28 June 1830), married on 22 April 1817 to Anna Fredericka Henriette Müller. They had three sons who possibly died young.
2. With Luise Rudorf (b. 1777 – d. 1852)
   1. Karl Wilhelm of Knebel (b. Templin, 18 January 1796 – d. Jena, 16 November 1861), married firstly on 6 February 1825 to Fredericka of Geusau, with whom he had one son, who died in infancy, before they divorced in 1837; secondly he married on 14 May 1839 Josephine Karoline Emilie Trautmann, with whom he had one son and two daughters.
3. With Karoline Jagemann (b. 1777 – d. 1848), created Frau von Heygendorf
   1. Karl Wolfgang von Heygendorff (b. Weimar, 25 December 1806 – d. Dresden, 17 February 1895)
   2. August von Heygendorff (b. Weimar, 10 August 1810 – d. Dresden, 23 January 1874).
   3. Mariana von Heygendorff (b. Weimar, 8 April 1812 – d. The Hague, 10 August 1836), married on 15 October 1835 to Daniel, Baron Tindal.

Karl August died at Graditz, near Torgau, in 1828. He was buried in the Weimarer Fürstengruft in Weimar.

Sources

• Lines of Succession, Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe. Michael Maclagan and Jiri Louda. Little Brown and Company 1981. ISBN 0-316-84820-4. Hesse and The Rhine. Table 109.
• Wikidata: Item Q213533, de:Wikipedia
• Find A Grave: Memorial #135550050