page_title: Karolina of Legnica-Brieg
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Karolina of Legnica-Brieg / Life / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Nagrobek Karoliny, ostatniej z Piastów, w Trzebnicy
context_page_description: Karolina of Legnica-Brieg-Wohlau, was a Silesian noble, duchess of Legnica, Brzeg and Wołów and the last member of the Silesian Piasts dynasty. She was the eldest daughter of Christian, Duke of Brieg and Louise of Anhalt-Dessau. After the death of her father, she married secretly without the knowledge of her mother on 14 July 1672 to Duke Frederick von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg and also became the duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg.
context_section_description: Karolina died on 24 December 1707 in Wrocław. Her heart was placed in a silver urn in the local church of St. Klara (in the chapel of St. Hedwig), and her body was buried in the monastery of Trzebnica. This happened against her mother's wishes, who before her own death in 1680 had prepared her place in the mausoleum of the Dukes of Legnica, called Piasteum. In the place which was supposedly to contain Karolina's remains, only an empty place was left.
caption: Tombstone of Karolina in Trzebnica Abbey
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