Christian Wilhelm (Schwarzburg-Sondershausen)

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Christian Wilhelm, first prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Christian Wilhelm I von Schwarzburg (born January 6, 1647 in Sondershausen ; † May 10, 1721 ibid) was Count and Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , Count of Hohnstein , Lord of Sondershausen, Arnstadt and Leutenberg . From 1681 he also held the title Graf in Ebeleben and from 1716 Graf in Arnstadt .

Life

Christian Wilhelm was the eldest son of Count Anton Günther I von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and his wife Maria Magdalena, née Countess Palatine zu Birkenfeld (1622–1689).

In 1666 he succeeded his father together with his brother Anton Günther II , but shared the land with him in 1681, with Anton Günther becoming Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt. In 1691, he was awarded by Emperor Leopold I the hereditary privilege of the Great Palatinats (comitiva maior) . As such, he and his male legitimate descendants were authorized to appoint third parties to the court palatinate with the privileges of the (not hereditary) small palatine (comitiva minor), as in 1715 Justus Henning Böhmer . In 1697 the brothers were elevated to the rank of imperial prince by the same emperor . After Anton Günther's death in 1716, Arnstadt reverted to Christian Wilhelm. With his brother he had concluded a succession contract in 1713, in which the primogeneity and indivisibility of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen were determined. The contract was signed in 1719 by Emperor Charles VI. confirmed after Ludwig Friedrich I. von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt joined the treaty in 1710.

Christian Wilhelm increasingly freed himself from the sovereignty of Electoral Saxony and had the Renaissance palace in Sondershausen rebuilt in baroque style. Under Christian Wilhelm, Sondershausen became a cultural center of northern Thuringia.

progeny

Christian Wilhelm got engaged to the hymn poet Ludmilla Elisabeth von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt on December 20, 1671 , but she died of measles in March 1672 . On August 22, 1673, he married Antonie Sibylle (1641–1684), daughter of Count Albrecht Friedrich von Barby und Mühlingen , and had the following children with her:

Christian Wilhelm married Wilhelmine Christiane (1658–1712), daughter of Duke Johann Ernst II of Saxe-Weimar , with whom he had the following children in 1684 :

  • Johanna Auguste (1686–1703)
  • Christiane Wilhelmine (1688–1749)
  • Heinrich XXXV. (1689-1758), reg. Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • August I (1691–1750), Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Henriette Ernestine (1692–1759)
  • Rudolf (1695–1749)
  • Wilhelm II. (1699–1762)
  • Christian (1700–1749), Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emperor Leopold I. Privilegium for the Count of Schwarzburg v. 22 December 1691, in: Gustav Emminghaus: Corpus Juris Germanici tam publici quam privati ​​academicum , Friedrich Frommann, 1844, Jena, 2nd edition, pp. 525-530
predecessor Office successor
Anton Günther I. Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
from 1697 Prince
1666–1720 		Günther I.
personal data
SURNAME Christian Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Christian Wilhelm; Christian Wilhelm I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1721
Place of death Sondershausen