Life
Victoria Charlotte was a daughter of Prince Victor I of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1693–1772) from his first marriage to Charlotte Louise (1680–1739), daughter of Count William Maurice of Isenburg-Birstein. On 26 April 1732 she married the later Margrave Frederick Christian of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1708–1769) in Schaumburg. After the wedding the couple moved into the New Castle in Neustadt an der Aisch at the request Frederick Christian's brother George Frederick Charles. The marriage ended in divorce in 1764, a year after Frederick Christian succeeded his brother as Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. The couple had already lived separately since 1739 because Frederick Christian was very jealous.Johann Wilhelm Holle: ''Geschichte der Stadt Bayreuth von den ältesten Zeiten bis 1792'', p. 149, Seligsberg, 1901 Victoria Charlotte spent the last years of her life in humble conditions in Halle. She died in 1772 and was buried in the ''Melander Crypt'' in Holzappel.Issue
From her marriage, Victoria Charlotte had two daughters: * Christiane Sophie Charlotte (1733–1757) : married in 1757 Duke Ernest Frederick III Carl of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727–1780) * Sophie Magdalene (1737–1737)Footnotes
References
* Philipp Ernst Bertram, Johann C. Krause: ''Geschichte des Hauses und Fürstenthums Anhalt: Fortsetzung'', vol. 2, p. 643 ff , - House of Ascania Margravines of Brandenburg-Bayreuth 1715 births 1772 deaths 18th-century German people Daughters of monarchs {{Germany-noble-stub