Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Spouse Ernest Louis
Father Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Mother Sophia Margaret of Oettingen-Oettingen
Born 28 November 1661(1661-11-28)
Ansbach
Died 15 November 1705(1705-11-15) (aged 43)
Darmstadt

Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach (28 November 1661, Ansbach – 15 November 1705, Darmstadt) was a German noblewomen, and by her marriage to Ernest Louis countess of Hesse-Darmstadt. The marriage took place in 1 December 1687.

Life

Dorothea Charlotte was a daughter of the Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1620–1667) from his second marriage to Sophia Margaret of Oettingen-Oettingen (1634–1664), daughter of Count Joachim Ernest of Oettingen-Oettingen.

On 1 December 1687 she married the Landgrave Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was under the guardianship of his mother, Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg until 1688.

Dorothea Charlotte was a pietist and exerted some influence upon the affairs of state in favour of the pietists in the first years of her marriage. In cooperation with Philipp Jakob Spener, whose patron she became, she promoted pietism at the court and the local University. After her death, Ernest Louis turned against pietism.

She died in 1705 and was buried in the City Church in Darmstadt.

Issue

Her children were:

  • Dorothea Sophie (1689–1723)
married in 1710 Count John Frederick of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1683-1765)
married in 1717 Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1700–1726)
  • Charles William (1693–1707)
  • Francis Ernest (1695–1717)
  • Friederike Charlotte
married in 1720 Landgrave Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel (1689–1753)

References

Vacant
Title last held by
Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Landgravine consort of Hesse-Darmstadt
1687 - 1705
Vacant
Title next held by
Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken



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