Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel

SCHLEGEL, Katharina (Catharina) Amalia Dorothea von. b. Mittel-hausen near Allstedt in Sachsen-Eisenach, Germany, 21 October 1697; d. Anhalt-Köthen, Germany, 24 December 1777. She was the daughter of Wolf Otto von Schlegel (1650?-1708), chamberlain, captain and war commissioner in the court of Sachsen-Eisenach, and his wife, Helene Dorothea von der Oelsnitz (1664-ca. 1714). She was the sixth of eleven children, nine of whom survived into adulthood, five sons and four daughters (Eggert, p. 37). Her father died when she was 11, her mother not many years after: the girls were probably placed in the care of the von Geusau family in Farnstädt. At some point, she became lady-in-waiting to Agnes...