Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym | |
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Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth | |
Born | Schaumburg | 25 December 1715
Died | 4 February 1772 Schaumburg | (aged 56)
Burial | Melander Crypt in Holzappel |
Spouse | Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth |
Issue Detail | Christiane Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth |
House | House of Ascania |
Father | Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym |
Mother | Charlotte Louise of Isenburg-Birstein |
Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (25 September 1715 – 4 February 1772) was a princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym by birth and Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by marriage.
Life[]
Victoria Charlotte was a daughter of Prince Victor I of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1693–1772) from his first marriage to Charlotte Louise (1680–1739), daughter of Count William Maurice of Isenburg-Birstein.
On 26 April 1732 she married the later Margrave Frederick Christian of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1708–1769) in Schaumburg. After the wedding the couple moved into the New Castle in Neustadt an der Aisch at the request Frederick Christian's brother George Frederick Charles.[1]
The marriage ended in divorce in 1764, a year after Frederick Christian succeeded his brother as Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. The couple had already lived separately since 1739 because Frederick Christian was very jealous.[2] Victoria Charlotte spent the last years of her life in humble conditions in Halle.
She died in 1772 and was buried in the Melander Crypt in Holzappel.
Issue[]
From her marriage, Victoria Charlotte had two daughters:
- Christiane Sophie Charlotte (1733–1757)
- married in 1757 Duke Ernest Frederick III Carl of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727–1780)
- Sophie Magdalene (1737–1737)
Footnotes[]
References[]
- Philipp Ernst Bertram, Johann C. Krause: Geschichte des Hauses und Fürstenthums Anhalt: Fortsetzung, vol. 2, p. 643 ff
- House of Ascania
- Margravines of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- 1715 births
- 1772 deaths
- 18th-century German people
- German nobility stubs