Count Anton Günther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (9 January 1620 – 19 August 1666) was the ruling Count of Schwarzburg-
Sondershausen
Sondershausen is a town in Thuringia, central Germany, capital of the Kyffhäuserkreis district, situated about 50 km north of Erfurt. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Schernberg was incorporated by Sondershausen.
Until 1918 it ...
from 1642 until his death in 1666.
Life
Count Anton Günther I was the son of the Count
Christian Günther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1578-1642) and his wife Countess Anna Sibille (1584-1623), daughter of Count
Albert VII of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
After his father's death, he and his brothers
Louis Günther II and
Christian Günther II divided
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a small principality in Germany, in the present day state of Thuringia, with its capital at Sondershausen.
History
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a county until 1697. In that year, it became a principality, which ...
. Anton Günther I received most of Lower Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, except for a few districts that went to Louis Günther II.
He did much for the churches and schools and laid the foundation stone of the church in
Sondershausen
Sondershausen is a town in Thuringia, central Germany, capital of the Kyffhäuserkreis district, situated about 50 km north of Erfurt. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Schernberg was incorporated by Sondershausen.
Until 1918 it ...
that replaced the one that had burned down in 1621. In 1657, the parish and school buildings burned down; he rebuilt those as well.
Marriage and issue
Anton Günther I married on 29 October 1644 with Mary Magdalene (1622-1689), a daughter of Count Palatine
George William of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. They had the following children:
* Anna Dorothea (1645-1716), married Henry IV of Reuss-Greiz (1650-1686)
*
Christian William I (1647-1721), Count and from 1697 the Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
* Clara Juliana (1648-1739)
* Sophie Eleanor (1650-1718),
Deaness at
Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg () is a town situated just north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. As an influential and prosperous trading centre during the early Middle Ages, Quedlinburg became a center of in ...
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Anton Günther II (1653-1716), Count and from 1697 the Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt
* Mary Magdalene (1655-1727)
* George Frederick ''or'' Rudolf (1657)
* George Ernest (1658-1659)
* Louis Günther III (1660)
* Johanne Elisabeth (1662-1720)
References
* Friedrich Apfelstedt: ''Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit'', Arnstadt, 1890
* Dr. Kamill von Behr: ''Genealogie der in Europa regierenden Fürstenhäuser'', Leipzig, 1870
House of Schwarzburg
Counts of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
1620 births
1666 deaths
17th-century German people
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