Christiane Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Duchess Christiane Charlotte of Saxony-Hildburghausen

Christiane Sophie Charlotte von Brandenburg-Kulmbach (born October 15, 1733 in Neustadt an der Aisch ; † October 8, 1757 in the Seidingstadt hunting lodge ) came from the Kulmbach-Bayreuth branch of the younger line ( Weferlinger line ) of the Franconian Hohenzollern and was a duchess by marriage of Saxony-Hildburghausen .

Life

Christiane Sophie Charlotte was the only surviving child of Margrave Friedrich Christian von Brandenburg-Kulmbach (since 1763 Margrave of Bayreuth ) from his marriage to Viktoria Charlotte , daughter of Prince Viktor I. Amadeus Adolf von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym .

The princess was brought up at the court of her aunt, the Danish Queen Sophie Magdalene , together with her daughter Louise in Copenhagen. On the mediation of the Queen, Christiane married her widower Ernst Friedrich III after Louise's death in 1756 . Carl von Sachsen-Hildburghausen on January 20, 1757 at Christiansborg Palace .

Described very piously, she was in no way inferior to her predecessor in stiff court etiquette and waste. In addition to lavish celebrations, the Duchess had a particular weakness for hunting. The antlers at the entrance to the former Seidingstadt hunting lodge come from two stags that they hunted in 1757. She died in childbed four days after the birth of Princess Friederike Sophie Marie Karoline. Her daughter survived the Duchess by nine days.

literature

• Heinrich Ferdinand Schoeppl: The dukes of Saxony-Altenburg. Bozen 1917, reprint Altenburg 1992.
• Rudolf Armin Human: Chronicle of the city of Hildburghausen. Hildburghausen 1886.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christiane Sophie Charlotte von Brandenburg-Kulmbach in the bibliographic database WorldCat