Wilhelmine was the daughter of the former royal Prussian vice president and director of the chamber to the Ansbach domain, Baron Heinrich Ernst Konrad Friedrich of Dörnberg and his wife Baroness Sophie Wilhelmine of Glauburg.
Wilhelmine's family, the House of Dörnberg, was a Protestant Hessian noble family and was not, according to the laws of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis House Act of 1776, equal to her husband Maximilian Karl. Despite the fierce resistance to the union from the of the princely house, especially from Maximilian Karl's mother Therese, the two married.
In 1834, Wilhelmine fell ill on a stressful ride to the Thurn and Taxis possessions in Bohemia including Castle Chraustowitz. At the beginning of 1835, the she went to Nuremburg to receive a homeopathic treatment with Dr. Reuter. Wilhelmine was hopeful that the treatments would restore her quality of life. However, she died on 14 May 1835.
Since she was not a Catholic she could not be buried in the family's crypt in the St. Emmeram Basilica. So Prince Maximilian von Thurn und Taxis had the Royal Crypt built on the castle's grounds, in which the members of the royal family have been buried ever since.
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She had five children:
Karl Wilhelm (1829–1829)
Theresia Mathildie Amalie Friedrike Eleonore (1830–1883)
Maximilian Anton Lamoral (1831–1867)
Egon Maximilian (1832–1892)
Theodor Georg (1834–1876)
Wilhelmine's family, the House of Dörnberg, was a Protestant Hessian noble family and was not, according to the laws of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis House Act of 1776, equal to her husband Maximilian Karl. Despite the fierce resistance to the union from the of the princely house, especially from Maximilian Karl's mother Therese, the two married.
In 1834, Wilhelmine fell ill on a stressful ride to the Thurn and Taxis possessions in Bohemia including Castle Chraustowitz. At the beginning of 1835, the she went to Nuremburg to receive a homeopathic treatment with Dr. Reuter. Wilhelmine was hopeful that the treatments would restore her quality of life. However, she died on 14 May 1835.
Since she was not a Catholic she could not be buried in the family's crypt in the St. Emmeram Basilica. So Prince Maximilian von Thurn und Taxis had the Royal Crypt built on the castle's grounds, in which the members of the royal family have been buried ever since.
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She had five children:
Karl Wilhelm (1829–1829)
Theresia Mathildie Amalie Friedrike Eleonore (1830–1883)
Maximilian Anton Lamoral (1831–1867)
Egon Maximilian (1832–1892)
Theodor Georg (1834–1876)
Wilhelmine was the daughter of the former royal Prussian vice president and director of the chamber to the Ansbach domain, Baron Heinrich Ernst Konrad Friedrich of Dörnberg and his wife Baroness Sophie Wilhelmine of Glauburg.
Wilhelmine's family, the House of Dörnberg, was a Protestant Hessian noble family and was not, according to the laws of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis House Act of 1776, equal to her husband Maximilian Karl. Despite the fierce resistance to the union from the of the princely house, especially from Maximilian Karl's mother Therese, the two married.
In 1834, Wilhelmine fell ill on a stressful ride to the Thurn and Taxis possessions in Bohemia including Castle Chraustowitz. At the beginning of 1835, the she went to Nuremburg to receive a homeopathic treatment with Dr. Reuter. Wilhelmine was hopeful that the treatments would restore her quality of life. However, she died on 14 May 1835.
Since she was not a Catholic she could not be buried in the family's crypt in the St. Emmeram Basilica. So Prince Maximilian von Thurn und Taxis had the Royal Crypt built on the castle's grounds, in which the members of the royal family have been buried ever since.
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She had five children:
Karl Wilhelm (1829–1829)
Theresia Mathildie Amalie Friedrike Eleonore (1830–1883)
Maximilian Anton Lamoral (1831–1867)
Egon Maximilian (1832–1892)
Theodor Georg (1834–1876)
Wilhelmine's family, the House of Dörnberg, was a Protestant Hessian noble family and was not, according to the laws of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis House Act of 1776, equal to her husband Maximilian Karl. Despite the fierce resistance to the union from the of the princely house, especially from Maximilian Karl's mother Therese, the two married.
In 1834, Wilhelmine fell ill on a stressful ride to the Thurn and Taxis possessions in Bohemia including Castle Chraustowitz. At the beginning of 1835, the she went to Nuremburg to receive a homeopathic treatment with Dr. Reuter. Wilhelmine was hopeful that the treatments would restore her quality of life. However, she died on 14 May 1835.
Since she was not a Catholic she could not be buried in the family's crypt in the St. Emmeram Basilica. So Prince Maximilian von Thurn und Taxis had the Royal Crypt built on the castle's grounds, in which the members of the royal family have been buried ever since.
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She had five children:
Karl Wilhelm (1829–1829)
Theresia Mathildie Amalie Friedrike Eleonore (1830–1883)
Maximilian Anton Lamoral (1831–1867)
Egon Maximilian (1832–1892)
Theodor Georg (1834–1876)
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