Christian Heinrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach
Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg- Kulmbach (* July 29, 1661 in Bayreuth, † April 5, 1708 in Weferlingen ) was the father of two Brandenburg baruthian Margrave and a Danish Queen, however, has never ruled itself as a sovereign. He came from the founded by his father Kulmbach by- line ( of Kulmbach - Bayreuth branch ) of the younger branch of the Franconian Hohenzollern.
Life
Christian Heinrich was the second son of Georg Albrecht (1619-1666) and came from his marriage to his first wife Maria Elisabeth of Holstein- Glücksburg ( 1628-1664 ). He was married in 1687 with Sophie Christiane of Wolfstein ( 1667-1737 ), but this marriage was not befitting rejected by the margrave's court in Bayreuth as. From 1694 he lived at the invitation of Brandenburg- Ansbach government with his family on the margrave's castle in Schönberg near run a country located in the territory of the city of Nuremberg Brandenburg- Ansbach exclave. Only a modest appanage alive and completely over-indebted, he concluded in 1703 there from the Schönberger contract. In it, he renounced the right of succession due to him in the Franconian possessions of the Hohenzollerns ( the two principalities Brandenburg -Ansbach and Brandenburg- Bayreuth) in favor of Prussia. As compensation for the Prussian King Frederick I of Prussia took over the befitting care of his family and made him into a new residence castle Weferlingen near Magdeburg. The following year he moved with his family to where he died four years later.
After his death, his eldest son, George Frederick Charles operated the lifting of Schönberger contract, which he, however, succeeded in 1722 after long and difficult conflict. This enabled him to 1726 but still the rule compete in the Principality of Bayreuth. After his eldest son Frederick had died in 1763 without male issue, finally entered yet with Friedrich Christian of the youngest son of Christian Heinrich succession in the Principality of Bayreuth.
Progeny
From his marriage Christian Heinrich had the following children:
- Georg Friedrich Karl (1688-1735), Margrave of Brandenburg -Bayreuth
- Wolfgang Albrecht (1689-1734) like,
- Dorothea Charlotte (1691-1712)
- Friedrich Emanuel (1692-1693)
- Christiane Henriette (1693-1695)
- Friedrich Wilhelm ( * / † 1695)
- Christiane (1698-1698)
- Christian August (1699-1700)
- Sophie Magdalene (1700-1770)
- Christine Wilhelmine (1702-1704)
- Friedrich Ernst (1703-1762), governor of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein
- Marie Eleonore (1704-1705)
- Sophie Karoline (1707-1764)
- Christian Friedrich (1708-1769), Margrave of Brandenburg -Bayreuth