Countess Maria Magdalena of Oettingen-Baldern (1619 – 31 August 1688 in Baden-Baden) was the second wife of the Margrave William of Baden-Baden.
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Early life
Mary Magdalene was a daughter of Count Ernst I von Oettingen-Baldern (1584–1626) and his wife Countess Katharina von Helfenstein-Wiesensteig (1589–1638).
Personal life
She married Margrave William of Baden-Baden in 1650 in Vienna. They were the parents of:
Philip Francis William (1652–1655), who died young.
Anna Maria Wilhelmina (1655–1702), who married with Prince Ferdinand August von Lobkowicz (1655–1715) in 1680.
Charles Bernard (1657–1678), who died in the Battle of Rheinfelden during the Franco-Dutch War.
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Maria
Countess Maria Magdalena of Oettingen-Baldern was the teacher of her step-grandson, the future Margrave Louis William of Baden-Baden after his mother did not want to live with her husband at the court in Baden-Baden and moved to Paris. Her husband, Maria Magdalena's step-son, Hereditary Prince Ferdinand Maximilian then had his 3-months-old son kidnapped from Paris back to Baden-Baden and asked Maria Magdalena to educate him (1655).