title: Karl von Heygendorff
text: # Karl von Heygendorff
  
  Karl von Heygendorff (25 December 1806, in Weimar – 17 February 1895, in Dresden) was a German officer in the army of the Kingdom of Saxony, rising to major general.
  
  ## Life
  
  He was the illegitimate son of Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and his lover, the actor Karoline Jagemann. His godfather was Goethe.
  
  ## Marriage and issue
  
  He married three times:
  
  * on 1 June 1831, to Meta Abegg; this marriage produced three sons (the first of whom died in infancy) before Meta died in childbirth (1835) after delivery of the last.
  * on 10 October 1836 to Therese von Watzdorf; they had one son and three daughters before the death of Therese in 1841.
  * on 24 December 1848, to Rosa, Freiherrin von Koenneritz. They had one son.
  
  ## Ancestry
  
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