Anna Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Anna Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt
Anna Sophia Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Duchess of Saxe-Eisenach.
Duchess consort of Saxe-Eisenach
Reign	1729–1741
Born	24 December 1706 Berlin
Died	3 January 1751 (aged 44) Sangerhausen
Spouse	Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
Father	Margrave Albert Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt
Mother	Maria Dorothea Kettler of Courland and Semigallia

Anna Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt (24 December 1706 – 3 January 1751), was a German noblewoman and member of the House of Hohenzollern and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Eisenach.

Born in Berlin, she was the third of seven children born from the marriage of Margrave Albert Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt (a younger brother of King Frederick I of Prussia) and Maria Dorothea Kettler, by birth Princess of Courland and Semigallia. From Anna Sophie's six older and younger siblings, only four survive adulhtood: three brothers (Charles Frederick Albert, Frederick and Frederick William; all died unmarried and without legitimate issue) and one sister (Sophie Fredericka Albertine, by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg).^[1]

Life

In Berlin on 3 June 1723 Anna Sophie married Wilhelm Heinrich, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Eisenach as his second wife. They had no children.^[2]

She became in Duchess consort of Saxe-Eisenach after the accession of her husband on 14 January 1729.

Anna Sophie died in Sangerhausen aged 44,^[3] having survived her husband by nine years. She was buried in Halle.^[1]

Notes

1. Genealogy of the House of Hohenzollern in: Genealogy.euweb.cz [retrieved 1 October 2014].
2. Genealogy of the House of Wettin in: Genealogy.euweb.cz [retrieved 1 October 2014].
3. Anna Sophia Charlotte von Brandenburg-Schwedt (Hohenzollern), Herzogin zu von Sachsen-Eisenach in: Geni.com [retrieved 1 October 2014].