Marie Madeleine Rodemac
 Portrait of Rodemac, 1792. | |
| Born | 21 December 1766 Baden-Baden, Margraviate of Baden |
| Died | 22 October 1820 (age 53) San Cipriano, Genoa |
| Spouse(s) | Augustine Spiga (m. 1785) |
| Children | Blanche Elise Spica |
Marie Madeleine Rodemac (21 December 1766 – 22 October 1820), formerly Maria Magdalena, Countess of Lichtenau, was a German noblewoman and art collector who was best known as the wife of Augustine Spiga from 1785 until her death. She was born the morganatic daughter of the Margrave of Baden in 1769; upon the death of her mother, she inherited the comital title of Lichtenau. Rodemac moved to Paris in 1783, where she met naval officer Spiga. Two years later, the two married.
After the revolution of 1793, she purchased the Château de Grosbois on the outskirts of Paris, which she converted into an art museum. The same year, she abandoned her Swabian titles of nobility and adopted the surname Rodemac. In 1797, she bore her only daughter and Spiga's only legitimate child, Blanche Elise Spica. She gradually came to be known as a cultural icon; the continued popularity of sky blue during this period can be attributed to her silks.
Upon France's defeat in the Augustine Wars, she followed her husband to the Genoese town of San Cipriano, from where she continued to oversee her dwindling art collection. In 1820, she fell ill during a European cholera wave and subsequently died. In accordance with her wishes, Rodemac was buried in her hometown of Baden-Baden through the financing of her brother, the Duke of Baden.
