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Born 13 March 1716
Stadtschloss, Berlin ( 1716-03-13 ) Issue Charles II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
Prince Georg Franz
Sophie, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Prince Christian Ludwig
Anna, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Prince Frederick Augustus
Prince Albrecht Heinrich
Princess Louise
Prince Wilhelm Adolf
Elisabeth Christine, Crown Princess of Prussia
Princess Friederike
Augusta Dorothea, Abbess of Gandersheim
Prince Maximilian Julius Leopold House House of Hohenzollern (by birth)
House of Brunswick-Bevern
(by marriage) Father Frederick William I of Prussia Mother Sophia Dorothea of Hanover Died February 17, 1801, Braunschweig, Germany Spouse Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (m. 1733) Children Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel Parents Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Frederick William I of Prussia Grandchildren Caroline of Brunswick Similar People Frederick William I of Prussia, Charles William Ferdinan, Princess Anna Amalia of, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Duchess Anna Amalia of | ||
Princess Philippine Charlotte: March for Orchestra
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (German: Philippine Charlotte von Preusen) (13 March 1716 in Berlin – 17 February 1801 in Brunswick) was a daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.
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Family
She was the fourth child and third daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and his wife Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. She was a sister of Frederick II of Prussia, Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden, and Friederike Luise, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of George I of Great Britain. This thus made her a niece of George II of Great Britain and a cousin of Frederick, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess of Orange, and Queen Louise of Denmark and Norway.
Marriage
On 2 July 1733 in Berlin, Princess Philippine Charlotte married Duke Charles of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, eldest son of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. Charles inherited the dukedom on his father's death in 1735.
Charles and Philippine had thirteen children
Biography
The simultaneous marriage of herself and of her brother Frederick to the sister of her spouse led to a permanent alliance of the most important North German Protestant houses Prussia and Brunswick. The family ties of the two dynasties meant the alliance of Charles I with his brother in the Seven Years' War and the career of Philippines sons in the Prussian service.
Philippine Charlotte was described as subtle and highly educated. She worked independently of an extract of the philosophical writings of Christian von Wolff in French. The Duchess pursued, partly because of the influence of the ducal adviser Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem, the German intellectual life very closely. She appreciated the poet Salomon Gessner and maintained a personal relationship Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Philippine Charlotte left to the Wolfenbuttel Library her own collection of 4,000 volumes.