Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen

Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (German: Freiin Gösta Julie Adelheid Marion Marie von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen; 26 January 1902 – 13 June 1996) was the mother of Prince Claus of the Netherlands, who was the Prince Consort of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, thus making her the mother-in-law of the former Dutch Queen. She is also the paternal grandmother of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who is the current Dutch King.

Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen
Full name
German: Gosta Julie Adelheid Marion Marie
Born(1902-01-26)26 January 1902
Döbeln, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Died13 June 1996(1996-06-13) (aged 94)
Hitzacker, Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
FamilyBussche-Haddenhausen
Spouse
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(m. 1924; died 1953)​
Issue
Sigrid von Amsberg
Prince Claus of the Netherlands
Rixa von Amsberg
Margit von Amsberg
Barbara von Amsberg
Theda von Amsberg
Christina von Amsberg
FatherBaron George von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen
MotherBaroness Gabriele von dem Bussche-Ippenburg
Dötzingen manor house

Early life

Gösta was born at Döbeln, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire (now Saxony, Germany), the second child and daughter of Baron George von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1869–1923), and his wife, Baroness Gabriele von dem Bussche-Ippenburg (1877–1973). Her father belonged to the Bussche-Haddenhausen branch of the Bussche family, her mother belonged to the Bussche-Ippenburg branch. Both descended from Clamor von dem Bussche (1532–1573).

Her mother was the heir of Dötzingen estate near Hitzacker, which her maternal grandfather had inherited from the counts von Oeynhausen after 1918. Gösta's father was an officer in the Royal Saxon Army. Dötzingen estate later passed on to her brother Baron Julius von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1906–1977). After her return from Africa, and her husband's death in 1963, she spent the rest of her life in Dötzingen.

Marriage

Gösta married on 4 September 1924 at Hitzacker to Claus Felix von Amsberg (1890–1963), son of Wilhelm von Amsberg and Elise von Vieregge.

Together they had six daughters and one son:

  • Sigrid von Amsberg (born 26 June 1925), married in 1952 to Bernd Jencquel, had issue.
  • Claus von Amsberg (6 September 1926 – 6 October 2002), married in 1966 to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, had issue.
  • Rixa von Amsberg (18 November 1927 – 2010), married to Dr. Peter Georg Ahrens
  • Margit von Amsberg (16 October 1930 – 1988), married in 1964 to Ernst Grubitz, had issue.
  • Barbara von Amsberg (born 16 October 1930), married in 1963 to Günther Haarhaus, had issue.
  • Theda von Amsberg (born 30 June 1939), married in 1966 to Baron Karl von Friesen, had issue.
  • Christina von Amsberg (born 20 January 1945), married in 1961 to Baron Hans Hubertus von der Recke, had issue.

Life in Africa

Her husband had returned from the Tanganyika Territory, a German colony (now Tanzania) during World War I to become manager of Dötzingen estate in 1917. Shortly after, the estate passed on to the Bussche family. In 1924 he married his employer's daughter, and in 1926, their son Claus war born at Dötzingen. In 1928 the family moved to Tanganyika where they remained during the outbreak of World War II. Her husband was manager of a German-British tea and sisal plantation. Her son was sent back to a German boarding school in 1933, but returned to Africa in 1936; in 1938 Gösta returned to Germany, and Claus was sent to a boarding school in Misdroy, before becoming drafted by the army. Her husband returned to Germany in 1947.

Death

She died, aged 94, in Hitzacker, Germany.

Family relations

Gösta was a second cousin of Dorothea von Salviati (wife of Kronprinz Wilhelm's eldest son Prince Wilhelm of Prussia), both being great-granddaughters of Heinrich von Salviati and Caroline Rahlenbeck. Her younger and only brother Julius (1906-1977) was married to Anna-Elisabeth von Pfuel (1909-2005).

Her family's home, Dötzingen castle, Lower Saxony, had passed to her maternal grandfather Eberhard Friedrich Gustav von dem Bussche-Ippenburg from the counts von Oeynhausen. It was at a dinner party of a distant cousin, the count von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff in Bad Driburg, on New Year's Eve 1962 that her son Claus met crown-princess Beatrix for the first time, herself also being a cousin of the host: Beatrix' paternal grandmother Armgard von Cramm was a daughter of Baron Aschwin von Sierstorpff-Cramm (1846–1909) and his wife, Baroness Hedwig von Sierstorpff-Driburg (1848–1900), and Armgard von Cramm had first been married to count Bodo von Oeynhausen, before marrying Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1872–1934), Beatrix' grandfather; Armgard's elder sister Baroness Hedwig von Sierstorpff-Cramm (1874–1907) was the heir of her mother's family's estate Driburg, and she also married a count von Oeynhausen, Wilhelm Karl Ludwig Kuno Graf von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff (1860–1922), whose descendants still own Driburg estate.

Ancestry

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