Amalia Wilhelmine von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1673-1742)

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Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (21 April 1673 – 10 April 1742) was a Holy Roman Empress as the wife of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Family and early life
She was the youngest daughter of John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate. Her two surviving sisters were Charlotte Felicitas, who married the Duke of Modena, and Henriette Marie, who never married. Wilhelmina was given a Catholic education by her great-aunt Louise Holladine at the convent of Maubuisson, and did not return to Hanover until she was 20 years old, in 1693. Early on, the Holy Roman Empress Eleonor Magdalene of the Palatinate-Neuburg decided that Wilhelmina Amalia would be her daughter-in-law.

Marriage and issue
As a result, on 24 February 1699, she married Eleonor's son, Archduke Joseph, the heir of Emperor Leopold I. At their wedding, the opera Hercule and Hebe by Reinhard Reiser (1674-1739) was performed. Upon Joseph's election as Emperor in 1705, she became Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.

She bore her husband three children:
 * Maria Josepha of Austria (8 December 1699 – 17 November 1757); she married August III ("the Saxon")
 * Archduke Leopold Joseph of Austria (29 October 1700 – 4 August 1701)
 * Maria Amalia of Austria (22 October 1701 – 11 December 1756); she married Charles VII, Hol y Roman Emperor