Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Noble person
1671 – 1727
Who was Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth?
Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth was Electress of Saxony from 1694 to 1727 and titular Queen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1697 to 1727 as the wife of Augustus II the Strong. Not once throughout the whole of her thirty-year queenship did she set foot in Poland, instead living in Saxony in self-imposed exile. Born a German margravine, she was called Sachsens Betsäule, "Saxony's pillar of prayer", by her Protestant subjects for her refusal to convert to Catholicism and her loyalty to the Protestant faith. Despite her and her mother-in-law, Anna Sophie of Denmark's allegiance to Lutheranism, her husband and son, later Augustus III, both became Catholics.
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- Born
- Dec 19, 1671
Bayreuth - Parents
- Spouses
- Augustus II the Strong
(1693/01/20 - )
- Augustus II the Strong
- Children
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Died
- Sep 4, 1727
Pretzsch, Wittenberg
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on July 23, 2013
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