Albertine | |
Succession: | Princess Consort of Anhalt-Bernburg |
Reign: | 22 May 1733 – 7 September 1750 |
Spouse: | Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg |
Issue: | Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg Charlotte Wilhelmine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Princess Marie Karoline Friederike, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst Christine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen |
House: | Hohenzollern (by birth) Ascania (by marriage) |
Father: | Prince Albert Frederick of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt |
Mother: | Princess Maria Dorothea Kettler of Courland |
Full Name: | Sophie Friederike Albertine |
Birth Date: | 21 April 1712 |
Birth Place: | Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia |
Death Place: | Bernburg, Anhalt Holy Roman Empire |
Albertine, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg (née Princess Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt; 21 April 1712 – 7 September 1750) was the second wife and consort of Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.
Sophie Friederike Albertine of Bradenburg-Schwedt was born in Berlin on 21 April 1712 as the third daughter of Prince Albert Frederick of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and Princess Maria Dorothea Kettler of Courland. Her mother was a daughter of Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Countess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
On 22 May 1733 she married Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg in Potsdam, becoming the Princess Consort of Anhalt-Bernburg.[1] She was his second wife. His first wife, Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau, had died the year before. Albertine and Victor Frederick had five children:
She died on 7 September 1750 in Bernburg.[2] She was buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien.[3] [4]