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
Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode. 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
Major General.
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
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, consisting of the former dominions of his uncle
Duke Bernhard of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön: viz. Søbygård and Gottesgabe, on the island of
Ærø
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Since 1 January 2006 all of Ærø has constituted a single Municipalities of Denmark, municipality, known as Ærø M ...
.
Christian Charles died of
smallpox
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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
Groß-Umstadt
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to
Dorothea Christina of Aichelberg (January 23, 1674 – June 22, 1762), daughter of the
bailiff
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Another official sometimes referred to as a '' ...
at Norburg, John Francis of Aichelberg. The
morganatic
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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 Christian Detlev Reventlow
* Frederick Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1706–1761)
References
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Footnotes
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Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
1674 births
1706 deaths
Deaths from smallpox
Princes from Denmark–Norway