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Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt

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Albertine
Princess Consort of Anhalt-Bernburg
Reign22 May 1733 – 7 September 1750
Born(1712-04-21)21 April 1712
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Died7 September 1750(1750-09-07) (aged 38)
Bernburg, Anhalt
Holy Roman Empire
SpouseVictor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
IssueFrederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
Charlotte Wilhelmine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Princess Marie Karoline
Friederike, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
Christine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen
Names
Sophie Friederike Albertine
HouseHohenzollern (by birth)
Ascania (by marriage)
FatherPrince Albert Frederick of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
MotherPrincess Maria Dorothea Kettler of Courland

Albertine, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg (née Princess Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt; 21 April 1712 – 7 September 1750) was the second wife of Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.[1]

Biography

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Sophie Friederike Albertine of Bradenburg-Schwedt was born in Berlin on 21 April 1712 as the third daughter of Prince Albert Frederick of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and Princess Maria Dorothea Kettler of Courland. Her mother was a daughter of Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Countess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.[citation needed]

On 22 May 1733 she married Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg in Potsdam, becoming the Princess Consort of Anhalt-Bernburg.[1] She was his second wife.[1] His first wife, Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau, had died the year before in childbirth.[1] Albertine and Victor Frederick had five children:[citation needed]

She died on 7 September 1750 in Bernburg.[citation needed] She was buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Biermann, Georg (1910). Cicerone: halbmonatsschrift für künstler, kunstfreunde und sammler (in German). Klinkhardt and Biermann.