Anna Fredericka Philippine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg


Anna Fredericka Philippine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg, was a German noblewoman member of the House of Oldenburg and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt.
Born in Wiesenburg, she was the thirteenth of fifteen children born from the second marriage of Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg with Anna Margaret of Hesse-Homburg. From her fourteen full-siblings, only seven survive adulthood: Frederick, Sophie Elisabeth, Charles Louis, Eleanor Margaret, William Christian, Magdalene Sophie and Johanna Magdalene Louise. In addition, she had two further older half-siblings from her father's first marriage with Catharina of Waldeck-Wildungen, of whom only one survive: Dorothea Elisabeth.

Life

In Moritzburg Castle on 27 February 1702, Anna Fredericka Philippine married Frederick Henry, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt. They had two children, of whom only one survive adulthood:
  1. Maurice Adolph Charles, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt, Bishop of Hradec Králové and Litoměřice ,
  2. Dorothea Charlotte.
Anna Fredericka Philippine died in Neustadt an der Orla aged 82.