Princess ''Mathilde'' of Waldeck and Pyrmont (; 10 April 1801 – 13 April 1825) was a member of the

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and a Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a member of the

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and a Duchess of Württemberg through her marriage to Duke Eugen of Württemberg.

Early life

Mathilde was born in

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Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont The County of Waldeck (later the Principality of Waldeck and Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and its successors from the late 12th century until 1929. In 1349 the county gained Imperial immediacy and ...

, the fourth daughter and tenth child of

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and his wife

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Marriage and issue

On 20 April 1817, in

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, she married Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857), son of

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and Princess Luise of Stolberg-Gedern (1764–1828), first cousin of the better known Countess of Albany). They had three children: *

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(25 March 1818 – 10 April 1888), married in 1845 to

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, had issue. * Duke Eugen of Württemberg (25 December 1820 – 8 January 1875), married in 1843 to Princess Mathilde of Schaumburg-Lippe, had issue. *Duke William Alexander of Württemberg (13 April 1825 – 15 April 1825) Mathilde died while giving birth to her third child. In 1827, Eugene remarried to

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, with whom he had four children.

Ancestry

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