Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. Weferlingen, 17 July 1708 - d. Weferlingen is a municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians Year 1708 ( MDCCVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Bayreuth, 20 January 1769), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Bayreuth ( pronounced) is a City in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1769 ( MDCCLXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a The Principality of Bayreuth (Fürstentum Bayreuth or Brandenburg-Bayreuth was a Reichsfrei Principality in the Holy Roman Empire
Family
He was the youngest of the fourteen children born to Margrave Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach by wis wife, Countess Sophie Christiane of Wolfstein. Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (b Bayreuth, 29 July 1661 - d His father died on 5 April 1708, almost three months before his birth. Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop Year 1708 ( MDCCVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a
Besides him, only six of his siblings survive adulthood: Georg Frederick Karl, who became in Margrave of Bayreuth; Albrecht Wolfgang -who was killed in action in 1734-; Dorothea Charlotte, Countess of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim -who died in 1712 after only seven months of marriage-; Sophie Magdalene, Queen of Denmark; Frederick Ernst; and Sophie Caroline, Princess of Ostfriesland. Georg Frederick Karl Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b Schloss Oberzulzbürg, 30 June 1688 - d Year 1734 ( MDCCXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1712 ( MDCCXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (November 28 1700 &ndash May 27 1770 was Queen-consort of Denmark and Norway as the wife of King Christian
Life
Frederick Christian was considered as an eccentric and the "Black Sheep" of the family. By the time of the death of his cousin Georg Wilhelm, Margrave of Bayreuth (1726) he lived as a Danish Lieutenant-general in Wandsbek near Hamburg and was not prepared for any government tasks in the principality of Bayreuth. Year 1726 ( MDCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Wandsbek is the second-largest of seven boroughs that make up the city of Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany He lived pulled back and left all the control of the principality to his older brother Georg Frederick Karl.
However, the death of his nephew Frederick without male issue (26 February 1763), let him as the only male member of the Bayreuth branch of the family, and, in consequence, in the new Margrave of Bayreuth. Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Year 1763 ( MDCCLXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a
After his government assumption in Bayreuth, Frederick Christian tried to stabilize the wrecked finances. He reduced drastically the costs of the Bayreuth court. Most artists (among others, Carl von Gontard) went to Berlin to the court of King Frederick the Great. Carl von Gontard ( January 13 1731 in Mannheim – September 23 1791 in Breslau) was a German Architect Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Frederick II (Friedrich II January 24 1712 August 17 1786) was a King of Prussia (1740&ndash1786 from the Almost all construction works in the castles and gardens were stopped. Bayreuth sank again into the Provinzialität (Province state).
Marriage and Issue
In Schaumburg an der Lahn on 26 April 1732, Frederick Christian married with Viktoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. Schaumburg is a district ( Landkreis) of Lower Saxony, Germany. Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. Year 1732 ( MDCCXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a They had two daughters:
- Christiane Sophie Charlotte (b. Neustadt am Aisch, 15 October 1733 - d. Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Year 1733 ( MDCCXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Seidingstadt, 8 September 1757), married on 20 January 1757 to Ernst Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 1757 ( MDCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1757 ( MDCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Ernst Frederick III Karl Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (b Königsberg, 10 June 1727 - d
- Sophie Magdalene (b. Neustadt am Aisch, 12 January 1737 - d. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Year 1737 ( MDCCXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Neustadt am Aisch, 23 July 1737). Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 1737 ( MDCCXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a
Christiane, Frederick Christian and Viktoria Charlotte's only surviving daughter, died four days after giving birth a daughter, who only survive her mother by nine days. This tragedy made the total breakdown of the couple, who never recovered by the lost.
Seven years later and shortly after Frederick Christian inherited the Margraviate of Bayreuth (1764), he and Viktoria Charlotte were divorced. Year 1764 ( MDCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Viktoria Charlotte returned to his homeland, were she died in 1792, twenty-three years after her former husband. Year 1792 ( MDCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year None of them remarried.
Without male issue, Frederick Christian became in the last member of the Younger line of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, who ruled this principality since 1603. on his death, Bayreuth as inherited by his distant kinsman, Christian Frederick, Margrave of Ansbach.
| Preceded by Frederick |
Margrave of Bayreuth 1763 – 1769 |
Succeeded by Christian Frederick |
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