Sophie Christiane of Wolfstein [SEP] date of death
Sophie Christiane of Wolfstein
Sophie Christiane of Wolfstein (24 October 1667 – 23 August 1737) was a Countess of Wolfstein and Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach by marriage.
Life.
Sophie Christiane was a daughter of Count Albrecht Frederick of Wolfstein (1644–1693) from his marriage to Countess Sophia Louise (1645–1717), daughter of Count Georg Wolfgang of Castell-Remlingen. Sophie Christiane's maternal uncle was married to an aunt of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf and Sophie Christiane was consequently raised strictly religiously in the Pietist
he moved there with his family. Four years later he died in Weferlingen, aged forty-seven and three months before the birth of his last child.
After Christian Heinrich's death, his oldest son Georg Frederick Karl pursued the abolition of the Contract of Schönberg; only in 1722, after long and difficult discussions, did he finally recover the succession rights of his family to Bayreuth and Ansbach.
Marriage and children.
In the Schloss Obersulzburg on 14 August 1687, Christian Heinrich married Countess Sophie Christiane of Wolfstein