Louise Albertine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

Louise Albertine, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg (née Princess Louise Albertine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön; 21 July 1748 – 2 March 1769) was a member of the Danish royal family and the consort of Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.

Louise Albertine
Princess Consort of Anhalt-Bernburg
Reign18 May 1765 – 2 March 1769
Born(1748-07-21)21 July 1748
Plön, Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
Died2 March 1769(1769-03-02) (aged 20)
Ballenstedt, Anhalt
Holy Roman Empire
SpouseFrederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
IssueAlexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg
Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg
HouseOldenburg (by birth)
Ascania (by marriage)
FatherFrederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
MotherChristine Armgard von Reventlow

Biography

Princess Louise Albertine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön was born in Plön on 21 July 1748 to Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, a member of a cadet branch of the Danish royal family, and his wife, Countess Christine Armgard von Reventlow (1711-1779). Her mother was the daughter of Christian Detlev, Count of Reventlow and a niece of Queen Anne Sophie of Denmark and Norway.

On 4 June 1763 Louise Albertine married Prince Frederick Albert of Anhalt-Bernburg in Augustenborg.[1] They had two children:

In 1765 her husband succeeded his father, Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, as the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.

Painting by Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1759), from left to right: Princess Louise Albertine, Duke Frederick Charles, Princess Friederike Sophie, Duchess Christine Armgard, Dorothea Christina, an African servant, and Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine at Traventhal House

She died of measles a week after giving birth to her daughter, on 2 March 1769 in Ballenstedt.[2] She is buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien in Bernburg.[3]

References
  1. "Oldenburg 10". genealogy.euweb.cz.
  2. "Person Page". thepeerage.com.
  3. "Bernburg". 8 July 2017. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017.
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