Christiane Ernestine Franziska von Fricken (7 September 1816 – 13 November 1844) was an Austrian pianist who for a while was the fiancée of Robert Schumann.
Ernestine von Fricken was born on 7 September 1816 in Neuberg, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (today Podhradí, Czech Republic).
[1] She was the illegitimate daughter of the unmarried Countess Caroline Ernestine Louise von Zedtwitz (1784–1861)[2] with the wire manufacturer Erdmann Lindauer from GrünAsch near Asch.
[3] Her mother's sister, Charlotte Christiane Friederike of Zedtwitz, and her later husband, the landowner and k. k. Captain Ferdinand Ignaz Freiherr von Fricken (1787–1850) were childless themselves and adopted Ernestine.
Herrschaft Asch, Tochter der Fräulein Marianne Karoline Ernestine Louise Edlen von Zedtwitz aus Obertheil-Neuberg.