Pauline of Waldeck and Pyrmont (Pauline Emma Auguste Hermine; 19 October 18553 July 1925) was a member of the

House of Waldeck and Pyrmont A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

and a Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Through her marriage to

Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt Alexis (Alexis Carl Ernst Louis Ferdinand Eugen Bernhard; 17 November 1845 – 21 January 1919) was a lieutenant general, statesman, and the Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt from 28 September 1890 to 21 January 1919. Biography Early life Alex ...

, Pauline was also a member of the Princely House of Bentheim and Steinfurt and Princess consort of Bentheim and Steinfurt from 28 September 1890 to 21 January 1919.

Early life

Pauline was born in

Arolsen Bad Arolsen (, until 1997 Arolsen, being the German name for ''Spa'') is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck (state), Waldeck-Pyr ...

, Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont on 19 October 1855 and was the second-eldest child and daughter of

George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont George Victor (14 January 1831 – 12 May 1893) was the 3rd sovereign Prince of the German state of Waldeck and Pyrmont. George Victor was born in Bad Arolsen the son of George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife Princess Emma of ...

and his first wife

Princess Helena of Nassau Princess Helena of Nassau (; 18 August 183127 October 1888) was a daughter of William, Duke of Nassau, and consort of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Early life Helena was born at Wiesbaden, Duchy of Nassau. She was the ninth chi ...

. Pauline was an elder sister of Marie, Crown Princess of Württemberg, Emma, Queen of the Netherlands, Helena, Duchess of Albany,

Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (''Friedrich Adolf Hermann Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont''; 20 January 1865 – 26 May 1946) was the last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 12 May 1893 to 13 November 1918. Early life, fa ...

, and Elisabeth, Princess of Erbach-Schönberg.

Marriage and issue

Together with her sisters Emma and Helena, she was one of the candidates to marry

King William III of the Netherlands William III (Dutch: ''Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk''; English: ''William Alexander Paul Frederick Louis''; 19 February 1817 – 23 November 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 18 ...

. In the summer of 1878, she arrived in

to choose one of them. Pauline was already in love with Crown Prince Alexis of Bentheim and Steinfurt and she refused to marry the monarch. Her sister Emma became queen of the Netherlands. Shortly before her 26th birthday, she married the 35-year-old Alexis on May 7, 1881 in Arolsen. The family received the title of princes in 1817. During the mediatization of 1806, the lands of their county were included in the

Grand Duchy of Berg The Grand Duchy of Berg (), also known as the Grand Duchy of Berg and Cleves, was a territorial grand duchy established in 1806 by Napoleon after his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz (1805) on territories between the French Empire at the Rhi ...

and, later, in the Kingdom of Prussia . However, the head of the family remained a member of the House of Lords of the Landtags of Prussia and Württemberg. Pauline married Alexis, Hereditary Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt, fourth child and eldest son of Ludwig Wilhelm, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt and his wife

Landgravine Landgrave (, , , ; , ', ', ', ', ') was a noble title, rank of nobility used in the Holy Roman Empire, and its former territories. The German titles of ', ' ("margrave"), and ' ("count palatine") are of roughly equal rank, subordinate to ' ("du ...

Bertha of

Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld This is a list of monarchs of Hesse () during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany. These monarchs belonged to a dynasty collectively known as the House of Hesse and the House of Brabant,''Burke's Royal Families of the World Volume I E ...

, on 7 May 1881 in

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 newlyweds settled in

Bentheim Castle Bentheim Castle () is an early medieval hill castle in Bad Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. The castle is first mentioned in the 11th century under the name ''binithem''. Situation The castle is built on a protrusion of Bentheim sandstone, whi ...

. Pauline and Alexis had eight children: *Prince Eberwyn of Bentheim and Steinfurt (10 April 1882 – 31 July 1949) : ∞ 1906–1914 Pauline Langenfeld (1884–1970) : ∞ 1918–1919 Ellen Bischoff-Korthaus (1894–1936), who later remarried

Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe Adolf II (23 February 1883 – 26 March 1936) was the last ruler of the small Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe in northwestern Germany from 29 April 1911 until his abdication on 15 November 1918. Adolf was the eldest son of Georg, Prince of Scha ...

: ∞ 1920 Anne-Louise Husser (1891–1951) *Victor Adolf, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt (18 July 1883 – 4 June 1961) : ∞ 1920 Princess Stephanie of

Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe, also called Lippe-Schaumburg, was created as a county in 1647, became a principality in 1807 and a free state in 1918, and was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present-day state of Lower Saxony, with its capi ...

(1899–1925) : ∞ 1931 Princess Rosa Helene of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1901–1963) *Prince Karl Georg of Bentheim and Steinfurt (10 December 1884 – 14 February 1951) : ∞ 1914 Princess Margarete of Schönaich-Carolath (1888–1980) *Princess Elisabeth of Bentheim and Steinfurt (12 July 1886 – 8 May 1959) *Princess Viktoria of Bentheim and Steinfurt (18 August 1887 – 30 January 1961) *Princess Emma of Bentheim and Steinfurt (19 February 1889 – 25 April 1905) *Prince Alexis Rainer of Bentheim and Steinfurt (16 December 1891 – 30 June 1923) *Prince Friedrich of Bentheim and Steinfurt (27 May 1894 – 17 May 1981)

Ancestry

References

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