Princess
Christine
Henriette
di Savoia-Carignano
formerly Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg aka von Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg
Born in Schloss Rotenburg, Rotenburg
Ancestors 
Daughter of Ernst Leopold (Hesse-Kassel) Hesse-Rotenburg
and Eleonore Maria Anna (Löwenstein-Wertheim) Hesse-Rotenburg
Sister of
Polyxena Christina Johanna (Hesse-Kassel) di Savoia, Eleonore Philippina Christina Sophia (Hesse-Kassel) von Pfalz-Sulzbach, Caroline (Hesse-Rottenburg) Bourbon Princess d and Constantine (Hesse-Kassel) Hesse-Rotenburg
Wife of
Luigi Vittorio (Savoia-Carignano) di Savoia-Carignano
— married
4 May 1740 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Vittorio Amedeo (DeSavoie-Carignano) di Savoia-Carignano II, Leopolda (di Savoia-Carignano) Doria-Pamphilj-Landi, Gabrielle di Savoia-Carignano and Maria Teresa Luisa (Savoia-Carignano) de Bourbon
Died
at age 60
in Palazzo Carignano, Torino, Piemonte, Kingdom of Sardinia
Profile last modified
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Biography
Landgravin von Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg by birth, Princess di Savoia-Carignano by marraige.
Christine Henriette was born on 21 November 1717 in Schloss (Castle) Rotenburg, the youngest of ten children of Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and Countess Eleonore von Löwenstein-Rochefort, his consort. On 4 May 1740 Christine was wed to Luigi Vittorio di Savoia (English: Louis Victor of Savoy). The next year her husband succeeded to the title Prince de Carignan, the seigneury of Carignano having belonged to the House of Savoy since 1418.
Princess Christine Henriette died at Palazzo Carignano in Torino (Turin) on the night of 31 August – 1 September 1778, less than three months before her consort passed away.
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