Sophie Angelika of Württemberg-Oels (30 May 1677 - 11 November 1700), was a Duchess of Württemberg-Oels by birth and by marriage She became the Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt.

Early life

Born in Bernstadt (now called

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), the capital of the

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, she was the fifth of the seven children of Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Oels and his first wife, Anna Elisabeth, a daughter of Prince

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of Anhalt-Bernburg and

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Biography

Her mother died after complications in her last childbirth on 3 September 1680 and her father remarried three more times: in

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on 27 October 1683 to Sibylle Maria, a daughter of Duke

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; in Hamburg on 4 February 1695 to Sophie Wilhelmine, a daughter of Prince Enno Louis ''Cirksena'' of East Frisia and in Güstrow on 6 December 1700 with Sophia, a daughter of Duke Gustav Adolph of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. Sophie Angelika and her older sister Louise Elisabeth (by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Merseburg-Lauchstädt) are the only surviving children from her parents' marriage. From her father's later marriages she had eight half-siblings, of whom only three survive adulthood:

Charles Frederick II, Duke of Württemberg-Oels Charles Frederick II of Württemberg-Oels (7 February 1690 in Merseburg – 14 December 1761 in Oleśnica) was a Duke of Oels-Württemberg and Regent of the Duchy of Württemberg. Life Charles Frederick was a son of the Duke Christian Ulr ...

Christian Ulrich II, Duke of Württemberg-Wilhelminenort Duke Christian Ulrich II of Württemberg-Wilhelminenort (27 January 1691 at Vielguth Castle nearby Oleśnica – 7 February 1734 in Stuttgart) was Duke of Württemberg-Wilhelminenort. Life Christian Ulrich II was the youngest son of the Duke ...

(both sons of Sibylle Maria) and Auguste Louise (daughter of Sophie Wilhelmine; by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels-Barby).

Private life

In Öls on 23 April 1699, Sophie Angelika married Prince Frederick Henry of Saxe-Zeitz. Shortly after, he received from his older brother

Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz Moritz Wilhelm (English: Maurice William; 12 March 1664 – 15 November 1718), a member of the Saxon House of Wettin, was the second and last Duke of Saxe-Zeitz from 1681 until his death. Life He was born at Moritzburg Castle in the Wettin ...

, the towns of

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and Neustadt as

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. From then on, Frederick Henry assumed the title Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (''Herzog von Sachsen-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt''). Sophie Angelika and her husband settled their residence in Pegau, where she died aged 23 after only nineteen months of childless union. She was buried in the ''Hallenkrypta of the Dom St.Peter und Paul'', Zeitz.

References

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