Duke Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (20 August 1674 – 23 May 1706 in Sonderburg) was an officer in the Brandenburg-Prussian army.

Life

Christian Charles was the younger son of Duke Augustus of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg and

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. He pursued a career as an officer in the army of Brandenburg-Prussia and was promoted to colonel on November 30, 1697. On January 14, 1705, he was promoted to

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. After the death of his father, Duke Augustus, and the accession to power of his older brother Joachim Frederick in 1699, Christian Charles received only a paréage, consisting of the former dominions of his uncle

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: viz. Søbygård and Gottesgabe, on the island of

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. Christian Charles died of

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in 1706. He was initially buried in Norburg. When his son, Frederick Charles, had become Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön after a long succession dispute, his body was transferred to the ducal crypt in Plön.

Marriage and issue

Christian Charles was married on February 20, 1702, in

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to Dorothea Christina of Aichelberg (January 23, 1674 – June 22, 1762), daughter of the bailiff at Norburg, John Francis of Aichelberg. The

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and secretly contracted marriage led to an agreement with his reigning brother in which Christian Charles waived princely rights for his descendants and adopted the family name "von Karlstein". Nevertheless, his son Frederick Charles would inherit Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön in 1722, when Joachim Frederick died without a male heir. The couple had three children:Family overview of Duke Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plon-Norburg
* Charlotte Amalie (1703 - died as a child) * Wilhelmina Augusta (1704–1749), married in 1731 with Conrad Detlev of Reventlow, the eldest son of

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* Frederick Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1706–1761)

References

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Christian Charles Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Plon Norburg Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön 1674 births 1706 deaths 17th-century German people Deaths from smallpox Danish princes