Ernst von Hügel

[3] Due to the inheritance of a relative who had worked for the Dutch East India Company, the Hügel family had a considerable fortune.

During the peace negotiations, he was appointed envoy of the Kingdom of Württemberg to the allied monarchs in Paris.

[7] In 1816, Hügel was appointed Lieutenant general and, at the same time, made vice president of the War Department.

From 1819 until his death he was a lifelong member of the Württembergian Chamber of Lords (German: Württembergischen Kammer der Standesherren).

Before her death on 28 February 1834, they were the parents of:[1] He married for the fourth, and final, time on 28 April 1835 to Elisabeth Sophie (née von Gemmingen-Guttenberg) von Cotta (1789–1859), widow of publisher and industrial pioneer Johann Friedrich Cotta, and sister of his third wife Luise.

Amalie's brother, Francis, Duke of Teck, married into the British royal family; his wife, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.