A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Hohenheim, Francisca, Countess von
HOHENHEIM, FRANCISCA, COUNTESS VON,
Born in 1748, at Adelmansfelden, daughter of the lord of Bernard in. She married, when quite a child, the old and disagreeable lord of Laubrum. She became afterwards acquainted with Charles Eugene, Duke of Wurtemberg, who fell violently in love with her, and persuaded her to elope with him. She was subsequently divorced from her first husband, and married to the Duke in Morganatic marriage. She became a blessing to the duchy of Wurtemberg, by the happy influence she exercised over her otherwise harsh and cruel husband. She was the foundress of numerous charitable institutions. After the death of her husband, she withdrew to Kirchheim, where she died, in 1811.