Joachim Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (9 May 1668,

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

– 25 January 1722,

Plön Plön (; Holsatian: ''Plöön'') is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 8,700 inhabitants. It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as on ...

) (german: Joachim Friedrich), also known as Joachim Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön, was the third Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön, a dukedom created by the division of the Duchy of

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg was the name of a branch line of the House of Oldenburg as well as the name of their land. It existed from 1564 until 1668 and was a titular duchy under the King of Denmark, rather than a true territorial dukedom in ...

Life

Joachim Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön was born in

on 9 May 1668. He was a scion of an insignificant branch of the

family, a collateral line of Schleswig-Holstein-Nordborg, with its seat at

Nordborg Castle Nordborg Castle ( da, Nordborg Slot) is a small castle which lies on the southern side of Nordborg Lake (''Nordborg Sø'') in Nordborg on the island of Als in Sønderborg Municipality, Denmark. The castle premises are currently used by Nordbor ...

on the island of Alsen, itself formed from a division of the inheritance of Plön's first duke, Joachim Ernest in 1671. He was the eldest son of

Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg Duke Augustus of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (9 May 1635 – 17 September 1699 in Plön) was Duke of a small part of Schleswig-Holstein around Nordborg Castle on the island of Als. He was the founder of the Schleswig-Holstei ...

(1635-1699) and his wife,

Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode Elizabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode (11 February 1647 – 20 January 1723) was a Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode by birth and by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Köthen and later Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg. Life She was ...

(1647-1723). When the incumbent Duke of Plön,

John Adolphus John Adolphus (1768–1845) was an England, English barrister and historian. Life Born 7 August 1768, he was of German background. His grandfather had been domestic physician to Frederick the Great, and wrote a French romance, ''Histoire des D ...

, died in 1704, a few days after his son, Adolphus Augustus, was killed in a riding accident, the male Plön line could be continued only through Leopold Augustus, grandson of John Adolphus and son of Adolphus Augustus. Leopold Augustus died as a child of four in 1706, and the underlying entitlement to the inheritance of Plön passed as a result to Joachim Frederick. Joachim Frederick himself had no male heir when he died in Plön on 25 January 1722, deeply in debt.

Plön Castle Plön Castle (german: Plöner Schloss) in Plön is one of the largest castles in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein and the only one located on a hill.

, the ancestral residence of the dukes of Plön, lay empty for seven years and some of its furniture was sold off; the Danish royal house administered the duchy during this period. Seven years after the death of Duke Joachim Frederick, Frederick Charles, the son of the

morganatic marriage Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to the spous ...

of the late duke's brother, Christian Charles, was named the fourth Duke of Plön. He would prove to be the last.

Family

Joachim Frederick was married twice. His first wife, Magdalene Juliana of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, whom he married in 1704 after becoming Duke of Plön, was a daughter of

John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen John Charles, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld at Gelnhausen (17 October 1638 – 21 February 1704), was a German prince and ancestor of the cadet branch of the King of Bavaria, royal family of Bavaria known, from the early 19th century, as Duke in ...

(1686-1720). Joachim Frederick and Magdalene Juliana had four daughters: * Charlotte Amalia (1709-1787), who became a nun in

Gandersheim Abbey Gandersheim Abbey (german: Stift Gandersheim) is a former house of secular canonesses ( Frauenstift) in the present town of Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was founded in 852 by Duke Liudolf of Saxony, progenitor of the Liudolfing or ...

* Elizabeth Juliana (*1711) * Dorothea Augusta Frederica (1712-1765), a nun in

* Christiana Louise (1713–1778) : married in 1735 Count Albert Louis Frederick of

Hohenlohe-Weikersheim The House of Hohenlohe () is a German princely dynasty. It ruled an immediate territory within the Holy Roman Empire which was divided between several branches. The Hohenlohes became imperial counts in 1450. The county was divided numerous time ...

(1716–1744) : married in 1749 Prince Louis Frederick of Saxe-Hildburghausen. On 17 February 1721, Joachim Frederick married his second wife, Juliana Louise (1698–1740), a daughter of

Christian Eberhard, Prince of East Frisia Prince Christian Everhard of East Frisia (1 October 1665, Esens – 30 June 1708, Aurich) was a Prince of East Frisia from the House of Cirksena from the day he was born in 1665, but remained under guardianship until 1690. Life Before taking ...

. She miscarried their only child on 28 May 1722, four months after Joachim Frederick's death.

Ancestors

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Family tree of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

{{authority control Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön 1668 births 1722 deaths

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