Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym

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.

Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Born(1715-12-25)25 December 1715
Schaumburg
Died4 February 1772(1772-02-04) (aged 56)
Schaumburg
Burial
Melander Crypt in Holzappel
SpouseFrederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Issue
Detail		Christiane Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
HouseHouse of Ascania
FatherVictor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
MotherCharlotte Louise of Isenburg-Birstein

Early life

Victoria Charlotte was a daughter of Prince Victor I of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1693–1772) from his first marriage to Countess Charlotte Louise of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein (1680–1739), daughter of Count William Maurice of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein (1657-1711) and his wife, Countess Anna Amalia of Isenburg-Büdingen (1653-1700).

Biography

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:

married in 1757 Duke Ernest Frederick III Carl of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727–1780)
  • Sophie Magdalene (1737–1737)

Footnotes
  1. Fortgesetzte neue genealogisch-historische nachrichten, [1762-1776], 168 part (in 14 vols.), part 97, Leipzig, 1769, p. 273 (Digitized)
  2. Johann Wilhelm Holle: Geschichte der Stadt Bayreuth von den ältesten Zeiten bis 1792, p. 149, Seligsberg, 1901

References
  • Philipp Ernst Bertram, Johann C. Krause: Geschichte des Hauses und Fürstenthums Anhalt: Fortsetzung, vol. 2, p. 643 ff
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