Erdmann August, Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Erdmann August, Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Hereditary Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1615

Place of Birth: Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1651

Profession: ruler

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Erdmann August, Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

  • Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b.
  • Bayreuth, 8 October 1615 - d.
  • Hof, 6 February 1651), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Hereditary Margrave (German: Erbmarkgraf) of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He was the seventh of the nine children of Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by his wife, Marie of Prussia.
  • In fact, he was the third-born son but the only one to survive into adulthood; his two older brothers Georg Frederick (b.
  • and d.
  • 1608) and Christian Ernst (b.
  • 1613 - d.
  • 1614) died long before his own birth. In Ansbach on 8 December 1641, Erdmann August married the Margravine Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who was also his first cousin (daughter of Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, his father's brother).
  • They had only one son: Christian Ernst (b.
  • Bayreuth, 6 August 1644 — d.
  • Erlangen, 20 May 1712), who became Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.Sophie died on 3 December 1646.
  • Erdmann August himself died four years later, aged thirty-five, in the middle of the preparations of his wedding with Sophie Agnes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
  • Because he predeceased his father, his son Christian Ernst succeeded as Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth in 1655.

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