Anna Aloysia Maximiliane von Lamberg

Anna Aloysia Maximiliane Louise von Lamberg (1676 – 28 June 1738), also known as Countess Esterle, was an Austrian countess who was successively the mistress of Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland, and Aleksander Benedykt Sobieski.

Early life Born into the Austrian House of Lamberg, Anna Aloysia Maximiliane was the only daughter of Austrian nobleman Kaspar Friedrich Count von Lamberg-Kunstadt (1648-1686) by his first wife, Countess Marie Franziska Theresia Hieserle von Chodau (d. 1684), a Bohemian noblewoman.

Court life In 1695, she married firstly her cousin, Count Franz Michael Hiserle von Chodau (1649–1709). She became the mistress of Augustus II the Strong in either 1696, with the affair lasting until 1699, or 1704 (the latter date favoured by the author of Sex with Kings ).

Her first husband divorced her in 1697, and, in 1698, she married Count Gustav Hannibal von Oppersdorff (died 1744). On 1 November 1698, she gave birth to a son, Count von Oppersdorff, whose father was supposedly Augustus II. The child died soon after birth.

Her relationship with Augustus II ended when the "playboy king" discovered that Maximiliane had been having affairs with several gentlemen at the court; she was given a day to leave the country.