Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt
Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg - Schwedt ( born May 24, 1677 in Berlin, † September 3, 1734 at his estate Malchow ) was Prince of Prussia from the House of Hohenzollern and officer.
Life
Christian Ludwig was the youngest son of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and his second wife Sophie Dorothea, Princess of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg, widowed Duchess of Brunswick- Lüneburg.
As Elector Friedrich Wilhelm already an heir from his first marriage, the then Elector Friedrich, possessed, Dorothea Sophie feared for the material welfare of their posthumous children who had no right to Brandenburg-Prussian territories on the basis of the applicable law of primogeniture. The descendants of the elector from his second marriage the reigns Schwedt, Vierraden and game breaking and the bulk of the estate of the rich Electress Dorothea Sophie were therefore granted. These side line of the Brandenburg Hohenzollerns, but had no sovereignty or sovereign rights, named after their residence, they left later baroque expand, Brandenburg - Schwedt. On the basis of previous investitures of the Hohenzollern to total hand and old princely inheritance to all the children stood also the title of Marquis, which was expanded after obtaining the Prussian royal crown in 1701 through the nunmehrigen Friedrich I. to the title of Prince of Prussia. However, the head of the line was Christian Ludwig's brother Philip William - he himself was only a financial stake in the appanage as well as the reversion to the succession for himself and his descendants in the event of the extinction of the main line Schwedter or even the spa or later royal line - such a case, however, never entered.
After the death of his half-brother in 1713 he was succeeded by his son, Frederick William I, so Christian Ludwig's nephew, on the throne. This followed a rigid austerity, abolished the elaborate royal household and the magnificent ceremonial of his father and predecessor and used the freed-up funds to supplement the army, making him known as soldiers made king. Musically, he was at most fond of some works by George Frideric Handel.
His uncle Christian Ludwig, who had a great interest in music and the arts, the king, however, allowed maintaining a separate chapel in the Berlin City Palace and gave him the reigns Malchow and Heiner village - they brought Christian Ludwig, along with his income from the maternal inheritance, his officer's commission as a major general (since 1695) and later Lieutenant General in Szczecin regimental commander of the Regiment of Foot (1806: . No. 7 ) as well as his role as Mr. Meister von Sonnenburg and administrator and Protestant provost of Halberstadt alone for the year 1734 48 945 Taler one.
He was also the fourth recipient of the Prussian Order of the Black Eagle. In winter 1718/19 Johann Sebastian Bach visited the city of Berlin and impressed the music loving Christian Ludwig with his skill. Christian Ludwig asked Bach to some of his compositions and received in the spring of 1721 a score titled "Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments", which is known under the name " Brandenburg Concertos " today.
Christian Ludwig died childless on his manor Malchow and was buried in the crypt of the Berlin Cathedral.
Swell
- Schwedt.de / history
- History -Online.de
- Preußenweb.de / regiments of the Prussian Army
- Web Archive of 11 May 2008, the intercalated [http://web.archive.org/web/20080511172554/http://worldroots.com/brigitte/famous/j/johannbrandenburgdesc1572.htm Website: Descendants of
John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg ]
- Declaration on Pesnes paintings of Christian Ludwig
- Hohenzollern ( Brandenburg- Schwedt line )
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- General of the early modern period ( Brandenburg- Prussia)
- Prince ( Prussia)
- A regiment of Early Modern
- Carrier of the Black Eagle
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- Friedrich Wilhelm ( Brandenburg)
- Born in 1677
- Died in 1734
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