Countess Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen

Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen (12 May 1703, Castell - 8 January 1777, Herrnhut) was a German noblewoman. By birth she was a member of the House of Castell-Remlingen and by marriage member of the House of Reuss.

Early life
She was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen by his second wife, Countess Dorothea Renata of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (1669-1743). Count Wolfgang Dietrich had fourteen children altogether, of whom Sophie Theodora was the twelfth child and tenth daughter.

Marriage and issue
On 7 September 1721 she married Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, with whom she had thirteen children:
 * Renate Benigna (1722–1747)
 * Heinrich XXIV (1724–1779), Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, grandfather of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and great-grandfather of Queen Victoria
 * Heinrich XXVI (1725–1796)
 * Heinrich XXVIII (30 August 1726 &mdash; 10 May 1797), married Countess Agnes Sophie of Promnitz (1720–1791), daughter of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz
 * Sophie Auguste (1728–1753), married 1748, Baron Ludwig von Weitelfshausen-Schautenbach
 * Charlotte Louise (1729–1792)
 * Heinrich XXXI (1731–1763)
 * Heinrich XXXII (born: 1733, killed in the Battle of Lobositz on 1 October 1756)
 * Heinrich XXXIII (1734–1791)
 * Heinrich XXXIV (1737–1806)
 * Christiane Eleonore (1739–1761)
 * Mary Elizabeth (1740–1784), married in 1765 Heinrich XXV, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein
 * Johanna Dorothea (1743–1801) married in 1770 Christoph Friedrich Levin von Trotha