Dorothea Justina Haxthausen

[1] She was the daughter of Count Anton I of Aldenburg (1633-1680) and his first wife Countess Augusta Johanna von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1638-1669).

Her father married for the second time and became stepdaughter to Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoille.

They had one son, Count Christian Friedrich von Haxthausen.

[1] The intimacy of their relationship is illustrated in a letter from the queen in reply to Hauxthausen, who had expressed concern that she would be unable to perform in her office because of her illnesses: "Do not fear that I shall be offended.

No matter how ill you are, you shall always be as dear to me, and if God should wish to deprive me of a part of the help, which I would wish to have of your service, so let us both submit to his mighty hand.