Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (10 August 1727, in

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12 September 1759, in

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) was the son of

Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck '' , house = Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck , spouse = Princess Sophie of Hesse-PhilippsthalNatália Nikolaievna, Countess Golovine , issue = Karl Anton AugustCatherine , father = Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Ho ...

and Princess Sophie of

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Marriage and issue

On 30 May 1754, Anton (as he was known) married Countess Frederica Charlotte of Dohna-Schlodien in Leistenau (3 July 173821 April 1785) in Königsberg. The couple had one child,

Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (; 20 August 175724 April 1816) was the ninth and penultimate Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. Friedrich Karl Ludwig was the son of Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig ...

(20 August 175724 April 1816). Anton would have inherited the dukedom of

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had it not been for his early death by wounds suffered at the

Battle of Kunersdorf The Battle of Kunersdorf occurred on 12 August 1759 near Kunersdorf (now Kunowice, Poland) immediately east of Frankfurt (Oder), Frankfurt an der Oder (the second-largest city in Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia). Part of the Third Silesian War and t ...

.Laubert, Manfred (1900). ''Die Schlacht bei Kunersdorf am 12. August 1759'' (in German). Mittler. OCLC 823779178, p. 53. His father Peter outlived him, so the dukedom was passed on from Peter to Anton's only son, Friedrich.

Ancestry

References

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