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Personal data Friedrich Wilhelm von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG-BECK II 


Household of Friedrich Wilhelm von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG-BECK II

He is married to Ursula Anna von DOHNA-SCHLODIEN.

They got married on December 3, 1721, he was 34 years old.


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Notes about Friedrich Wilhelm von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG-BECK II

Frederick William II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (18 June 1687 - 11 November 1749) was a Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. He served as Prussian field marshal and was appointed Governor of Berlin, but never filled the latter position.

Frederick William II was the eldest son of Duke Frederick Louis (1653-1728) and his wife Louise Charlotte of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1658-1740). His siblings included Dorothea, Peter August, Charles Louis. In 1728, Frederick William II succeeded his father as Duke of Beck. After his death, he was succeeded by his son Frederick William III, who fell in battle in 1757. The title was then inherited by Frederick William II's brother, Charles Louis.

Although he was born in Potsdam, Frederick William was raised in Königsberg and studied in Halle. He served in the Prussian Army as a captain in his father's regiment in 1703 or as a lieutenant colonel in 1704. He distinguished himself during the Siege of Stralsund (1711-1715) and was promoted to colonel in 1713, when he served in the Regiment Holstein. In 1717, King Frederick William I of Prussia rewarded him with Friedrichshof Palace in Ludwigswalde, East Prussia (now in Lesnoye, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). In 1719 the king granted the duke another East Prussian manor, also named Friedrichshof, in Kasebalk. Duke Fredrick William subsequently renamed the second manor Holstein (now in Pregolskiy, Kaliningrad). From 1721, he led the infantry regiment #11, which his father had led before.

In 1725, the king invested the duke with the Riesenberg estate, however, he sold it off. In 1732, he purchased Beck Manor in Löhne-Ulenburg, after which the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck line was named, from Maria Antonia, the widow of his cousin Frederick William I (1682-1719), who had converted to Catholicism and had become a field marshal in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire. Frederick William I fell in battle at Francavilla di Sicilia.

In 1733 Frederick William II was promoted to lieutenant general. He participated in campaigns along the Rhine in 1734 and 1735 during the War of the Polish Succession. King Frederick II of Prussia was displeased with Frederick William after the Battle of Mollwitz during the First Silesian War in 1741. His regiment had been held in reserve and arrived on the battlefield too late to contribute to the battle. Unaware of the situation, he passed by several Austrian units. Nevertheless, King Frederick the Great was fond of the duke, whom he referred to as gute alte Holsteiner ("good old Holsteiner"). The duke was promoted to field marshal later that year and posted in Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia. He was also a recipient of the Order of the Black Eagle.

In 1745, Frederick William II sold the Beck Manor to the Baroness of Ledebur-Königsbrück, but retained the title Duke of Beck. In 1747, he was appointed governor of Berlin. However, due to illness, he was unable to take up this post. He died in Königsberg.

Marriage and issue
Frederick William was married twice. His first wife was Louise Felicity Eleonora of Loß, Countess of Dabrova (d. 1715). She was the widow of a member of the Czartoryski family and a daughter of the Polish treasurer Wladislav of Loß. This marriage remained childless.

He married his second wife on 3 December 1721. She was Ursula Anna (31 December 1700 - 17 March 1761), the daughter of Burgrave Christopher of Dohna-Schlobitten. This marriage produced two children:

Frederick William III (4 November 1723 - 6 May 1757), served as a colonel in the Prussian army and fell in the Battle of Prague
Sophia Charlotte (31 December 1722 - 7 August 1763), married: on 5 June 1738 to the Prussian Major General Alexander Emilius, Burgrave of Dohna-Wartenberg-Schlodien (7 July 1704 - 6 October 1745, fell in the Battle of Soor) and secondly on 1 January 1750 to Duke George Louis of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (16 March 1719 - 1763)
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_II,_Duke_of_Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

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Birthday June 18, 1687

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1687: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 19 » Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
    • July 5 » Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
    • August 12 » Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
    • September 26 » Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison, is partially destroyed after being bombarded during the Siege of the Acropolis by Venetian forces.
    • December 31 » The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

Day of marriage December 3, 1721

  • The temperature on December 3, 1721 was about 5.0 °C. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1721: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 6 » The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.
    • March 24 » Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
    • April 4 » Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
    • April 26 » A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
    • August 18 » The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
    • October 22 » Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.

Day of death November 11, 1749

  • The temperature on November 11, 1749 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer en geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
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    • January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
    • January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
    • January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
    • May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
    • June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.


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