Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen (12 May 1703, Castell - 8 January 1777, Herrnhut) was a German noblewoman. By birth she was a member of the House of Castell-Remlingen and by marriage member of the House of Reuss.
Early life Sophie was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen and Countess Dorothea Renata of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (1669-1743). Count Wolfgang Dietrich had fourteen children altogether, of whom Sophie Theodora was the twelfth child and tenth daughter.
Marriage and issue On 7 September 1721 Sophie married Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf. They had: Renate Benigna (1722–1747) Heinrich XXIV (1724–1779), Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, grandfather of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and great-grandfather of Queen Victoria Heinrich XXVI (1725–1796) Heinrich XXVIII (30 August 1726 – 10 May 1797), married Countess Agnes Sophie of Promnitz (1720–1791), daughter of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz Sophie Auguste (1728–1753), married 1748, Baron Ludwig von Weitelfshausen-Schautenbach Charlotte Louise (1729–1792) Heinrich XXXI (1731–1763) Heinrich XXXII (born: 1733, killed in the Battle of Lobositz on 1 October 1756) Heinrich XXXIII (1734–1791) Heinrich XXXIV (1737–1806) Christiane Eleonore (1739–1761) Mary Elizabeth (1740–1784), married in 1765 Heinrich XXV, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein Johanna Dorothea (1743–1801) married in 1770 Christoph Friedrich Levin von Trotha
Bibliography Thomas Gehrlein: "Das Haus Reuss: Älterer und Jüngerer Linie", booklet, August 2006 Stephan Hirzel: Der Graf und die Brüder, Quell Verlag, Stuttgart, 1980,
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