Georg Albrecht (Saxe-Weissenfels-Barby)

Duke Georg Albrecht von Sachsen-Weißenfels-Barby in armor with an ermine coat as a sign of princely dignity

Georg Albrecht (also Albert ) von Sachsen-Weißenfels (born April 19, 1695 in Dessau , † June 12, 1739 in Barby ) was the second and last Duke of Sachsen-Weißenfels-Barby from 1728 to 1739 and came from a sideline of the Albertine Wettins .

family

Georg Albrecht was the fourth son of Duke Heinrich von Sachsen-Weißenfels-Barby and his wife Elisabeth Albertine von Anhalt-Dessau , daughter of Prince Johann Georg II. Von Anhalt-Dessau .

Life

After the two oldest brothers Georg Albrechts died early before his birth and also the third oldest son of Duke Heinrich, Hereditary Prince Friedrich Heinrich, did not return alive from his Grand Tour in The Hague . In 1709 Georg Albrecht was first appointed colonel of a regiment on foot by King Friedrich Wilhelm I. But he became the sole heir to Barby's paternal property and rights in 1711.

Georg Albrecht took over the rule after the death of his father in 1728 and continued the administration in his sense, but died after eleven years of reign. Since he did not leave any heirs, the Barby line of the Weißenfelser secondary school died out with him and fell back to the main line to his cousin, General Johann Adolf II from the Electorate of Saxony .

He was buried in the new family vault established by his father in Barby.

marriage

His only marriage was on February 18, 1721 in Forst with Auguste Luise von Württemberg-Oels , the daughter of Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels from his third marriage to Sophie Wilhelmine von Ostfriesland . Auguste Luise's maternal grandmother was Juliana Sophia von Barby und Mühlingen , the sister of the last Count August Ludwig von Barby und Mühlingen . The marriage was extremely unhappy and both divorced in 1732. Auguste Luise returned to her Silesian homeland and died about five months before Georg Albrecht. They never married again and the relationship never resulted in children, which ultimately meant the end of the Barby line.

literature

• Johann Huebners… Three hundred and three and thirty genealogical tables. Tab. 169
• 300 years of Neu-Augustusburg Castle, 1660–1694 - residence of the Dukes of Saxony-Weissenfels. Festschrift. Weissenfels, 1994
• Friedrich Gerhardt: The story of Weißenfels a. S. with new articles on the history of the Duchy of Saxony-Weißenfels. Weißenfels 1907, page 215
• Johann Christoph Dreyhaupt: Description of the… Saal-Creyses, especially the cities of Halle. Halle, 1749/1751 (i.e. "Dreyhaupt-Chronik")
• Anton Balthasar König : Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures. Volume 3, 1790, p. 336, digitized

Web links as sources

• History of the Counts of Barby ( Memento of May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Georg Albrecht Herzog von Sachsen-Weissenfels in Barby on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 18, 2016.
• Barby's story

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich	Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Barby 1728–1739	Johann Adolf II , Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels