Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym

Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Born (1715-12-25)25 December 1715
Schaumburg
Died 4 February 1772(1772-02-04) (aged 56)
Schaumburg
Burial Melander Crypt in Holzappel
Spouse Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
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:

married in 1757 Duke Ernest Frederick III Carl of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727-1780)

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

Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
Born: 25 September 1715 Died: 4 February 1792
German nobility
Preceded by
Sophie Caroline Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel		 Margravine consort of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
26 February 1763 - 1764 		Succeeded by
Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld


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