Ancestral Trails 2016 » Christiane Eberhardine von BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH (1671-1727)

Persoonlijke gegevens Christiane Eberhardine von BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH 

• Zij is geboren op 19 december 1671 in Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany.
• Zij is overleden op 4 september 1727 in Pretzsch Castle, Pretzsch, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, zij was toen 55 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven september 1727 in St Nicholas, Pretzsch an der Elbe, Germany.

Gezin van Christiane Eberhardine von BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH

Zij heeft/had een relatie met Friedrich Augustus von SAXONY.

Kind(eren):

1. Friedrich Augustus von SAXONY  1696-1763 

Notities over Christiane Eberhardine von BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH

Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (19 December 1671 - 4 September 1727) was Electress of Saxony from 1694 to 1727 (her death) and titular Queen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1697 to 1727 by marriage to Augustus II the Strong. Not once throughout the whole of her thirty-year queenship did she set foot in Poland, instead living in Saxony in self-imposed exile. Born a German margravine, she was called Sachsens Betsäule, "Saxony's pillar of prayer", by her Protestant subjects for her refusal to convert to Catholicism and her loyalty to the Protestant faith. Despite the allegiance of Christiane Eberhardine and her mother-in-law, Anna Sophie of Denmark, to Lutheranism, her husband and son, later Augustus III, both became Catholics.

She was the firstborn child of Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and his second wife, Sophie Louise, daughter of Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg. She was named for her father, Christian, and her mother's father, Eberhard. As the daughter of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, she was margravine by birth. She had five younger siblings, only two of whom survived infancy. She remained close to her relatives in Bayreuth and continued to visit them after her marriage.

Marriage and issues
She married Frederick Augustus, Duke of Saxony, the younger brother of the elector, John George IV, on 20 January 1693 at age 21. The marriage was purely political and highly unhappy. Augustus considered her boring, while she was shocked and hurt by his constant infidelity.

Three years later, on 17 October 1696, their son Frederick Augustus was born in Dresden. This was the only pregnancy in their entire 34-year-long marriage. He was brought up by his paternal grandmother, Anna Sophie of Denmark. Because Christiane Eberhardine and her mother-in-law got on well, she visited her son frequently.

Christiane Eberhardine's husband converted to Catholicism to become king of Poland, but she remained faithful to her Protestant beliefs and was not present at her husband's coronation, and was never crowned queen of Poland. Her Protestant countrymen named her "The Pillar of Saxony."
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Eberhardine_of_Brandenburg-Bayreuth

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