Albertine, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg (née Princess Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt; 21 April 1712 – 7 September 1750) was the second wife and consort of

Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg , house = Ascania , father = Karl Frederick , mother = Sophie Albertine of Solms-Sonnenwalde , birth_date = , birth_place = Bernburg, Anhalt, Holy Roman Empire , death_date = , death_place = Bernburg, Anhalt, H ...

Biography

Sophie Friederike Albertine of Bradenburg-Schwedt was born in

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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 Princess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen (10 January 1650 Jul. – 15/25 November 1688), german: Sophia Amalia Prinzessin von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: ''Prinzessin von Nassau, Gräfin zu Katzenelnbogen, Vianden, Diez, Limburg und ...

. Her paternal grandparents were

Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg Frederick William (german: Friedrich Wilhelm; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he is ...

and

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. On 22 May 1733 she married

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, becoming the Princess Consort of Anhalt-Bernburg. She was his second wife. His first wife, Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau, had died the year before. Albertine and Victor Frederick had five children: *

Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg , noble family = House of Ascania , father = Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg , mother = Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt , birth_date = , birth_place = Bernburg, Anhalt, Holy Roman Empire , death_date = ...

(1735 - 1796) * Charlotte Wilhelmine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1737 - 1777) * Princess Marie Karoline of Anhalt-Bernburg (1739 - 1739) * Friederike August Sophie, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst (1744 - 1827) * Christine Elisabeth Albertine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1746 - 1823) She died on 7 September 1750 in

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. She was buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien.

References

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