Christian Heinrich (Brandenburg-Kulmbach)

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Christian Heinrich von Brandenburg-Kulmbach (born July 29, 1661 in Bayreuth ; † April 5, 1708 in Weferlingen ) was the father of two Brandenburg-Bayreuth margraves and a Danish queen, but never ruled as sovereign himself. He came from the Kulmbach branch established by his father (the Kulmbach-Bayreuth branch) of the younger line of the Franconian Hohenzollern .

Life

Weferlingen ruins

Christian Heinrich was the second son of Georg Albrecht (1619–1666) and came from his marriage to his first wife Maria Elisabeth von Holstein-Glücksburg (1628–1664). He had been married to Sophie Christiane von Wolfstein (1667-1737) since 1687 , but this marriage was rejected by the margravial court in Bayreuth as not befitting. From 1694, at the invitation of the Brandenburg-Ansbach government, he lived with his family in the margravial castle in Schönberg near Lauf, a Brandenburg-Ansbach exclave located in the rural area of ​​the imperial city of Nuremberg . Living only on a modest apanage and completely over-indebted, he signed the Schönberg Treaty there in 1703 . With him he renounced the right of inheritance to which he was entitled in the Franconian possessions of the Hohenzollern, the two principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth , in favor of Prussia . As compensation, the Prussian King Friedrich I took over the befitting provision of his family in Prussia and assigned him Weferlingen Castle near Magdeburg as his new residence . The following year he and his family moved there, where he died four years later.

After his death, his eldest son, Georg Friedrich Karl, rescinded the Schönberg Treaty, which he only succeeded in doing in 1722 after long and difficult arguments. As a result, he was still able to rule the Principality of Bayreuth in 1726. After his eldest son Friedrich died in 1763 without male descendants, Christian Heinrich's youngest son , Friedrich Christian, succeeded him in the Principality of Bayreuth.

progeny

His eldest son, Georg Friedrich Karl (1688–1735)
His youngest son, Friedrich Christian (1708–1769)

Christian Heinrich had the following children from his marriage:

⚭ 1709 (divorced 1724) Princess Dorothea of ​​Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685–1761)
⚭ 1711 Count Karl Ludwig von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (1674–1756)
  • Friedrich Emanuel (1692–1693)
  • Christiane Henriette (1693–1695)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (* / † 1695)
  • Christiane (1698–1698)
  • Christian August (1699–1700)
  • Sophie Magdalene (1700–1770)
⚭ 1721 King Christian VI. of Denmark and Norway (1699–1746)
  • Christine Wilhelmine (1702–1704)
  • Friedrich Ernst (1703–1762), governor of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein
⚭ 1731 Princess Christine Sophie of Braunschweig-Bevern (1717–1779)
⚭ 1723 Prince Georg Albrecht of East Friesland (1690–1734)
⚭ 1732 (divorced 1764) Princess Viktoria Charlotte von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1715–1792)

literature

  • Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Lexicon of German history . Events, institutions, people. From the beginning to the surrender in 1945. 3rd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-81303-3 .
  • M. Spindler, A. Kraus: History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century , Munich 1997. ISBN 3-406-39451-5
  • Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences: New German Biography , Berlin 1971

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personal data
SURNAME Christian Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Christian Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Father of the two margraves Georg Friedrich Karl and Friedrich Christian von Brandenburg-Kulmbach
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1661
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1708
Place of death Weferlingen