Career
She is sometimes known as Marie Hedwige. Her husband lived in Navarre prior to the revolution and succeeded his father in 1792. During the collapse of the ancien régime, the duchy of Bouillon was taken from him in 1794 and absorbed into France in October 1795.
However in 1800, he recovered the duchy but was obliged to pay off debts of 3 million livres.
The duchy was incorporated in the new Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. The Duchess of Bouillon died childless in Paris on 27 May 1801.
26 June 1748 – 17 July 1754 Princess Hedwig of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg
1754 – 1766 Princess Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg
17 July 1766 – 3 December 1792 Princesse de Turenne
3 December 1792 – 27 May 1801 Her Highness the Duchess of Bouillon.