Augustus II The Strong - Illegitimate Issue

Illegitimate Issue

The Electress Christiane, who remained Protestant and refused to move to Poland with her husband, preferred to spend her time in the mansion in Pretzsch on the Elbe, where she died.

August, a voracious womanizer, never missed his wife, spending his time with a series of mistresses:

• 1694–1696 with Countess Maria Aurora of Königsmarck.
• 1696–1699 with Countess Anna Aloysia Maximiliane von Lamberg.
• 1698–1704 with Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum, later Princess of Teschen.
• 1701–1706 with Fatima, Turkish woman, renamed later as Maria Aurora of Spiegel.
• 1704–1713 with Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, later Countess of Cosel.
• 1706–1707 with Henriette Rénard.
• 1708 with Angélique Duparc, French dancer and actress.
• 1713–1719 with Maria Magdalena of Bielinski, by her first marriage Countess of Dönhoff and by the second Princess Lubomirska.
• 1720–1721 with Erdmuthe Sophie of Dieskau, by marriage of Loß
• 1721–1722 with Baroness Christine of Osterhausen, by marriage of Stanislawski.
• ?–? with Friederike, a black woman.

Some contemporary sources, including Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, claimed that Augustus had as many as 365 or 382 children. The number is extremely difficult to verify; Augustus officially recognised only a tiny fraction of that number as his bastards (the mothers of these "chosen ones," with the possible exception of Fatima, were all aristocratic ladies):

—With Maria Aurora of Königsmarck:

1. Hermann Maurice (Goslar, 28 October 1696 - Château de Chambord, 30 November 1750), Comte de Saxe.

—With Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum:

1. Johann Georg (21 August 1704 - 25 February 1774), Chevalier de Saxe, later Governor of Dresden.

—With the Turk Fatima, later Maria Aurora of Spiegel:

1. Frederick Augustus (Warsaw/Dresden, 19 June 1702 - Pillnitz, 16 March 1764), Count Rutowsky.
2. Maria Anna Katharina (1706 - 1746), Countess Rutowska; married firstly in January 1728 to Michał, Count Bieliński, divorced in early 1732; secondly, in February 1732, to Claude Marie Noyel, Comte du Bellegarde et d'Entremont.

—With Anna Constantia of Brockdorff:

1. Augusta Anna Constantia (24 February 1708 - 3 February 1728), Countess of Cosel; married on 3 June 1725 to Heinrich Friedrich, Count of Friesen.
2. Fredericka Alexandrine (27 October 1709 - 1784), Countess of Cosel; married on 18 February 1730 to Johann Xantius Anton, Count Moszinsky.
3. Frederick Augustus (27 August 1712 - 15 October 1770), Count of Cosel; married on 1 June 1749 to Countess Friederike Christiane of Holtzendorff. They had four children. The two sons, Gustav Ernst and Segismund, died unmarried. One of the two daughters, Constantia Alexandrina, married Johann Heinrich, Lehnsgraf Knuth. The other, named Charlotte, first married Count Rudolf of Bünau and then married Charles de Riviere.

—With Henriette Rénard:

1. Anna Karolina ( 26 November 1707 - Avignon, 27 September 1769), Countess Orzelska; married on 10 August 1730 to Karl Ludwig Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. They divorced in 1733.