Christian Eberhard (East Frisia)

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Christian Eberhard

Prince Christian Eberhard von Ostfriesland (born October 1, 1665 in Esens , † June 30, 1708 in Aurich ) from the house of Cirksena was Prince of East Frisia from birth , but remained under the tutelage of his mother Christine Charlotte until 1690 .

Life

Christian Eberhard was born after the death of his father, Prince Georg Christian . He first grew up at the court in Aurich. At the age of ten, his mother sent him abroad to be educated. After stays in the Netherlands , Piedmont and France , he was in Italy and Austria after 1681 . On these journeys he climbed Vesuvius , visited Queen Christina of Sweden in Rome and met the Sun King Louis XIV in Paris .

He was reluctant to take over government responsibility. It was not until 1690 that he succeeded his mother, although the estates associated with her in constant disputes had long demanded this. His reign, however, was characterized by efforts to compensate. In 1693 in Hanover and in 1698 in Aurich, for example, he made some comparisons with the estates, thereby consolidating inner peace. This met with goodwill among the population. He received the nickname "the Peaceful" and was one of the few East Frisian sovereigns who was welcomed in Emden when he visited the city in 1699.

Christian Eberhard was considered prudent, tolerant and pietistic . Like his mother, he granted the Reformed further rights, although he was himself a Lutheran . Furthermore, he made an inheritance contract with the Guelph Duke Ernst August . However, due to the lack of imperial approval, this did not come into force. In Christian Eberhard's reign, Brandenburg also had a claim to East Frisia, which Friedrich III. with the emperor and thus laid the foundation stone for the Prussian occupation of East Frisia after the extinction of the Cirksena in 1744. Christian Eberhard tried to counter this with a hereditary brotherhood with Duke Ernst August of Braunschweig and Lüneburg . House Cirksena was then to become the hereditary successor in the counties of Hoya and Diepholz in the event that the descendants of Ernst August died out . However, the treaty did not come into force due to the imperial approval not being obtained.

Christian Eberhard, who had always been ailing since early childhood and was therefore always accompanied on his travels by his personal physician Eberhard Bacmeister , died in 1708, like many Cirksena, at a young age. He was followed by his second son Georg Albrecht .

family

Prince Christian Eberhard was married to Eberhardine Sophie zu Oettingen-Oettingen (* August 16, 1666, † October 30, 1700), daughter of Prince Albrecht Ernst I and sister of Christine Luise von Oettingen-Oettingen . The couple had the following children:

∞ Idstein September 24, 1709 Countess Christiane Luise von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (* March 31, 1691; † April 13, 1723), daughter of Georg August Samuel von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1665–1721) and Henriette Dorothea von Oettingen ,
∞ in Berum on December 8, 1723 Sophie Karoline von Brandenburg-Kulmbach (* 1707 † June 7, 1764), daughter of Christian Heinrich von Brandenburg-Kulmbach
  • Ulrich Friedrich (* July 18, 1691; † September 21, 1691)
  • Karl Enno (* December 25, 1692 - † August 3, 1709)
  • Friederike Wilhelmine (born October 4, 1695 - † July 29, 1750, Aurich), canonist in Herford
  • Enno August (February 13, 1697 - August 3, 1725)
  • Juliana Luise (born June 13, 1698 in Aurich; † February 6, 1740 in Harzgerode); ∞ on February 17, 1721 in Braunschweig Joachim Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Plön (* 1668; † January 25, 1722)
  • Christine Charlotte, (September 17, 1699 - August 23, 1733)

After the death of the first wife he married in 1701 to the left hand Anna Juliana of Kleinau (1674-1727), entitled Women of sand Horst received. Anna Juliane had been the princess's maid of honor, her parents were the son of the chief forester from Mecklenburg-Güstrow Heinrich von Kleinau and his wife Sophia Klara von der Osten , daughter of Oldenburger Landdrosten von Delmenhorst Hieronymus Georg von der Osten (* May 2, 1612; † 28. May 1659). The three children of Prince Christian Eberhard von Ostfriesland from the morganatic marriage with Juliane Kleinau bore the name von Sandhorst , including:

  • Sophie Antoinette Juliane von Sandhorst, (January 4, 1707 - January 14, 1725), (died of smallpox , buried in the Cirksena mausoleum in Aurich)

The prince's mortal remains lie in a collective coffin in the Cirksena mausoleum in Aurich .

literature

  • Martin Tielke (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia. 3 volumes. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1993–1997, ISBN 3-925365-75-3 (Vol. 1), ISBN 3-932206-00-2 (Vol. 2), ISBN 3-932206-22-3 (Vol . 3).
  • Ernst Esselborn: The Cirksena family. The chiefs, counts and princes of East Friesland. sn, Berlin-Pankow 1945.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Deeters: Christian Eberhard (PDF; 69 kB). In: Martin Tielke (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland . 4 volumes. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1993–1997, Vol. 2. ISBN 3-932206-00-2 , Aurich 1997, pp. 59–60.
  2. ^ Tileman Dothias Wiarda , Ostfriesische Geschichte , Volume 6, p. 387, digitized
  3. ^ Georg at rootsweb.ancestry.com
  4. ↑ Genealogy in Preussen & Lippe: v. Sandhorst
predecessor Office successor
Georg Christian
( Christine Charlotte von Württemberg as regent)		 Prince of East Frisia
1665–1708 		Georg Albrecht
personal data
SURNAME Christian Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christian Eberhard Cirksena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of East Frisia
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Esens
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1708
Place of death Aurich