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unusual facts about Principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau



Anhalt-Köthen

It was created for a second time in 1603 with the partition of Anhalt-Zerbst.

Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

About 1720, Augustus Louis fell in love with Agnes Wilhelmine of Wuthenau (b. Plötzkau, 4 December 1700 - d. Köthen, 14 January 1725), of the old nobility of Anhalt and lady-in-waiting to his mother, the Dowager Princess Gisela Agnes.

Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

#Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau, later Anhalt-Köthen (b. Plötzkau, 8 April 1622 - d. Köthen, 7 November 1669).

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#Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau, later Anhalt-Köthen (b. Plötzkau, 6 October 1631 - d. Köthen, 8 November 1670).

Augustus of Anhalt-Plötzkau (Dessau, 14 July 1575 – Plötzkau, 22 August 1653), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the unified principality of Anhalt.

#Ernest Gottlieb, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau (b. Plötzkau, 4 September 1620 - d. Plötzkau, 7 March 1654).

In Ansbach on 25 January 1618 Augustus married Sibylle (b. Laubach, 19 October 1590 - d. Plötzkau, 23 March 1659), daughter of John George I, Count of Solms-Laubach.

Augustus received Plötzkau, which was created from parts of the old principality of Anhalt-Bernburg.

Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

#Frederick, Prince of Anhalt(-Bernburg)-Harzgerode (b. Ensdorf, 16 November 1613 - d. Plötzkau, 30 June 1670).

Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst

Dorothea von Anhalt-Zerbst (25 September 1607, Zerbst – 26 September 1634, Hitzacker) was a member of the House of Askanier and a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

In 1653, after the death of his father, Emmanuel inherited Plötzkau jointly with his older brothers Ernest Gottlieb and Lebrecht.

title=Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

Ernest Gottlieb, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

Ernest Gottlieb of Anhalt-Plötzkau (4 September 1620 – 7 March 1654) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau.

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

#George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later Anhalt-Plötzkau (b. Dessau, 15 August 1507 - d. Dessau, 17 October 1553).

title=Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
with George II (until 1509)
and Sigismund III (until 1487)

Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode

Frederick of Anhalt-Harzgerode (16 November 1613, Ensdorf, Bavaria – 30 June 1670, Plötzkau), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Harzgerode.

Frederick ruled his small principality without complications for almost thirty years, until 1665, when the extinction of the line of Anhalt-Plötzkau changed the original division of the Anhalt principalities.

George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

That year, he and his brothers decided to divide their principality of Anhalt-Dessau formally; George received Plötzkau.

After 1544 he became the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau.

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

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Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

After the death of his father in 1653, Lebrecht inherited Plötzkau jointly with his older brother Ernest Gottlieb and his younger brother Emmanuel.

Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

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Plötzkau

Plötzkau is a municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben

Henry II the Fat, the eldest son of Henry I, had been co-ruler of his father since 1244.

When in 1315 Henry's grandson Otto II died without male heirs, the principality — including the capital of Aschersleben — was seized as a fief by his cousin and creditor Bishop Albert of Halberstadt.

In the course of the partition he chose the Anhalt ancestral homeland north of the Harz mountains around the Ascanian residence of Aschersleben (Ascharia), which he granted town privileges in 1266.

Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg

The principality lasted until 1742 when Princes Christian August and John Louis II inherited Anhalt-Zerbst.

It was created in 1667 following the death of Prince John VI and the partition of Anhalt-Zerbst with Anhalt-Mühlingen being created along with Anhalt-Dornburg for the younger sons of Prince John VI.

Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst

Sophie Auguste Fredericke (Empress Catherine II of Russia) 1793–1796 (only in Jever)

Theodoric I, Margrave of Lusatia

His illegitimate son Theodoric, by a mistress named Cunigunde, widowed Countess of Plötzkau, was legitimated on 12 May 1203 and became Bishop of Merseburg in 1204.


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