Fredericka Charlotte of Stolberg-Gedern explained

Birth Date:	3 April 1686
Death Date:	10 January 1739 (aged 52)
Birth Place:	Gedern, Hesse
Death Place:	Laubach, Hesse
Spouse:	Frederick Ernest, Count of Solms-Laubach
Mother:	Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
Father:	Louis Christian, Count of Stolberg-Gedern

Friederike Charlotte of Stolberg-Gedern (3 April 1686 - 10 January 1739), was a German noblewoman of The House of Stolberg and by marriage Countess of Solms-Laubach.

Early life and marriage

Born Friedrike Charlotte on April 3, 1686, in Gedern, Hesse. She was the third of twenty-three children to Count Louis Christian of Stolberg-Gedern (1652 -1710) and Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1663-1749). Her elder siblings twins Gustav Adolph and an unnamed sister had died previously on January 17, 1684.

When Friedrike was twenty-three years old when she married Friedrich Ernst, Count of Solms-Laubach on December 8, 1709, in Gedern.^{[1] [2]} Friedrich was president of the Reichskammergerichts and was succeeded by his surviving sons, Friedrich Magnus II and Christian August. Together they had thirteen children together, and only three would survive into adulthood.^{[3] [4] [5]}

!Name!Lifespan!Notes

Friederike Ernestine zu Solms-Laubach	1710-1711
Friedrich Magnus II zu Solms-Laubach	21 November 1711 - 17 August 1738	President of the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar. Never married and had no issue.
Karl Leopold zu Solms-Laubach	1713-1713
Christian August zu Solms-Laubach	1714-1784	President of the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar. Married Elisabeth Amalie Friederike of Isenburg-Büdingen; had issue.
Adolf Heinrich zu Solms-Laubach	1715-1715
Ludwig Karl zu Solms-Laubach	1716-1716
Magdalene Christine zu Solms-Laubach	1718-1719
Ferdinand Otto zu Solms-Laubach	1718-1719
Luise Charlotte zu Solms-Laubach	1720-1723
Marie Sophie Wilhelmine zu Solms-Laubach	1721-1793	Married Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels; had issue.
Johan Kuno zu Solms-Laubach	1722-1722
Karl Franz zu Solms-Laubach	1721-1722
Karl Heinrich	1723-1723

Death

Friedrike was 53 years old when she died on January 10, 1739, at SchloÏ Solms, Laubach, Hesse. She was buried in the local Evangelical church.

References

1. Book: Solms-Laubach, Rudolph zu . Geschichte des Grafen- und Fürstenhauses Solms . 1865 . Adelmann . de.
2. Book: Raineval . Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et . The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe . Raineval . Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and . 1914 . Burke's Peerage . 978-0-85011-028-9 . 1371 . en.
3. Web site: Hessian Biography : Extended Search : LAGIS Hessen . 2022-08-06 . www.lagis-hessen.de.
4. Ein goldener Schimmer aus fernen Zeiten. Die Schlossbibliothek zu Laubach lädt mit einer Ausstellung in alte Gärten ein [In:] Unseroberhessen, 88. Jahrgang, 2/2012, S. 20–21.
5. Michael Sachs: Die Flucht der evangelischen Frau Anna Magdalena von Reibnitz (1664–~1745) mit ihren von der Zwangskatholisierung bedrohten fünf Kindern aus Schlesien im Jahre 1703 – ein Stimmungsbild aus dem Zeitalter der Gegenreformation und des Pietismus. In: Medizinhistorische Mitteilungen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Fachprosaforschung. Band 34, 2015 (2016), S. 221–263, hier: S. 227.