Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau - Marriage and Issue

Marriage and Issue

In Charlottenburg on 25 July 1767 Leopold married his cousin Louise Henriette Wilhelmine (b. Różanki, Brandenburg, 24 September 1750 – d. Dessau, 21 December 1811), daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by his wife Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, a sister of his father. They had two children:

1. A daughter (b. and d. Dessau, 11 February 1768).
2. Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 27 December 1769 – d. Dessau, 27 May 1814).

Also, he had several illegitimate children:

• With Johanna Eleonore Hoffmeyer (b. 12 November 1739 – d. 3 May 1816), by marriage von Neitschütz since 1765:

1. Wilhelmine Eleonore Fredericka (b. Dessau, 14 June 1762 – d. Dessau, 23 September 1762).
2. Count Franz John George of Waldersee (b. Dessau, 5 September 1763 – d. Dessau, 30 May 1823), married in Dessau on 20 May 1787 to Countess Louise of Anhalt (morganatic granddaughter of the Hereditary Prince William Gustav, eldest son and heir of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau). They had six children, three sons (Franz Henry, Eduard and Frederick Gustav) and three daughters (Louise, Amalie Agnes and Marie). Their descendants through the eldest son Franz Henry are still alive.
3. Louise Eleonore Fredericka (b. Dessau, 30 August 1765 – d. 1804).

• With Leopoldine Luise Schoch, daughter of his Master Gardener, who was ennobled with the surname "von Beringer":

1. Wilhelmine Sidonie von Beringer (b. Wörlitz, 5 January 1789 – d. Halle, 20 April 1860), married in Wörlitz on 20 June 1815 to Wilhelm von Goerne.
2. Louise Adelheid von Beringer (b. Dessau, 16 October 1790 – d. Halle, 5 June 1870), married in Wörlitz on 19 August 1812 to Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Georg von Glafey.
3. Franz Adolf von Beringer (b. Wörlitz, 2 June 1792 – d. 28 February 1834), married to Auguste Wilhelmine Roeser (b. 2 June 1793 – d. 25 August 1855). They had one son Wilhelm, and one granddaughter, Magda, with the line apparently becoming extinct.

• With Johanna Magdalena Luise Jäger (b. 1763 – d. ?):

1. Franziska (b. 1789 – d. young?).
2. Leopoldine (b. 1791 – d. 1847).
3. Amalie (b. 1793 – d. 1841).

• With Fredricka Wilhelmine Schulz (b. 1772 – d. 1843), by marriage Favreau:

1. Louis Ferdinand Schulz (b. 1800 – d. 1893).