Christian Everhard, Prince of East Frisia

Prince Christian Eberhard von Ostfriesland ( born October 1, 1665 in Esen, † June 30, 1708 in Aurich ) from the house of Cirksenas had since birth Prince of East Frisia, but remained until 1690 under the tutelage of his mother Christine Charlotte.

Life

Christian Eberhard was born after the death of his father, Prince Georg Christian. He grew up on the farm at first in Aurich. At the age of ten years, his mother sent him to be educated abroad. After living in the Netherlands, Piedmont and France, he was after 1681 in Italy and Austria. In these travels he climbed Mount Vesuvius, visited Rome in the Queen Christina of Sweden and met in Paris on the Sun King Louis XIV

Reluctantly he took over the government. It was not until 1690 he went to his mother's successor, although associated with it in constant conflict stalls for a long time demanded this. His reign was marked by contrast balancing efforts. He graduated in 1693 in Hanover and in 1698 in Aurich some comparisons with the Estates, consolidating the peace. This was true in the population on benevolence. He was nicknamed " the Fried Same" and was incorporated as one of the few East Frisian rulers friendly in Emden, when he visited the city in 1699.

Christian Eberhard was considered prudent, tolerant and pietistic. As has been his mother he confessed the Reformed have other rights, even though he himself was Lutheran. He also met with the Guelph Duke Ernst August a contract of inheritance. This did not occur due to lack of consent but in imperial power. In Christian Eberhard's reign also the reversion of Brandenburg falls to East Friesland, which Friedrich III. secured to the emperor and thus laid the foundation for the Prussian occupation of East Friesland after the extinction of Cirksenas in 1744 put. Christian Eberhard tried the one Erbverbrüderung with the Duke Ernst August of Brunswick and Lüneburg oppose. The house Cirksenas should then take the hereditary succession in the counties Hoya and Diepholz in the case of extinction of the descendants of Ernst August. However, the contract did not occur as a result of not gathered imperial approval in force.

Christian Eberhard, who since childhood had been sickly ever and was therefore always accompanied on his travels by his personal physician Eberhard Bacmeister died in 1708 how many Cirksenas at a young age. He was succeeded by his second son Georg Albrecht.

Progeny

Prince Christian Eberhard was with Sophie of Oettingen - Oettingen Eberhardine ( born August 16, 1666 † October 30, 1700 ), daughter of Prince Albrecht Ernst I and sister of Christine Louise of Oettingen- Oettingen, married. The couple had the following children:

• Leopold Ignaz (* 10./20. February 1687, † 11./21. June 1687 )
• Christina Sophia, ( born March 16, 1688 in Bayreuth, † March 31, 1750 Rudolstadt ); ∞ in Rudolstadt December 31, 1728 Prince Friedrich Anton I. von Schwarzburg -Rudolstadt (* August 14, 1692, † September 1, 1744 )
• Marie Charlotte, ( born April 10, 1689 † December 9, 1761 ) ∞ on April 10, 1709 her cousin Friedrich Ulrich von Ostfriesland (* December 31, 1667, † March 13, 1710 ), son of Ferdinand Edzard.
• Georg Albrecht, Prince of East Friesland ( 1690-34 ), since 1722 Knight of the Order of elephants

• Ulrich Friedrich ( * July 18, 1691, † September 21, 1691 )
• Karl Enno (* December 25, 1692; † August 3, 1709 )
• Friederike Wilhelmine (* October 4, 1695; † July 29, 1750, Aurich ) Kanonistin in Herford
• Enno August (* February 13, 1697; † August 3, 1725 )
• Juliana Louise ( born June 13, 1698 Aurich, † February 6, 1740 in Harzgerode ); ∞ on February 17, 1721 in Braunschweig Joachim Frederick of Schleswig -Holstein - Plön (* 1668, † January 25, 1722 )
• Christine Charlotte (* September 17, 1699; † August 23, 1733 )

After the death of his first wife he married in 1701 to the left hand of Anna Juliana Kleinau ( 1674-1727 ), who received the title of Lady of sand Horst. Anna Juliane had been maid of honor to the Princess, her parents was the forester 's daughter from Mecklenburg- Güstrow Heinrich von Kleinau and his wife Sophia Clare of the East, daughter of the Oldenburg region bailiff from Delmenhorst Hieronymus Georg von der Osten (* May 2, 1612; † 28 May 1659 ). The three children of Prince Christian Eberhard von Ostfriesland of the morganatic marriage with Juliane Kleinau bore the name of sand Horst, including:

• Sophie Antoinette Juliane of sand Horst, (* January 4, 1707; † January 14, 1725 ), ( died of smallpox, buried in Cirksenas Mausoleum in Aurich )

The mortal remains of Prince are in a cardboard coffin in Cirksenas Mausoleum in Aurich.