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Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Bayreuth, December 19 1671 - Pretzsch (Elbe), September 4 1727) was the wife of Augustus II the Strong.
   She was the only daughter of Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Sophie Luise, daughter of Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg. She married in Bayreuth at the age of 21 on January 20 1693 to Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, the future King of Poland. This was a purely political wedding.
   Their son Friedrich August was born 3 years later on October 17 1696 in Dresden.
   August of Saxony converted to Catholicism to become King of Poland, but Christiane Eberhardine remained faithful to her Protestant believes, and wasn't present at her husband's coronation. Her Protestant countrymen named her "The Pillar of Saxony". Christiane Eberhardine retired in her castle at Pretzsch an der Elbe or in Hartenfels Castle in Torgau, and was only seen in Dresden at the occasional festivity. In her voluntary exile she led a life of culture and took interest in the faith of orphaned children. She was also active in the field of economies : in 1697 she overtook the glasfactory in Pretzsch, founded by Constantin Fremel.
   A lonely woman, Christiane Eberhardine von Brandenburg-Bayreuth died at the age of 55 and was buried on September 6 in the Parish church of Pretzsch. Neither her husband nor her son were present at the funeral.
   At this occasion, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote for her Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl on at text of Johann Christoph Gottsched, which was performed for the first time on October 15 1727 in the Leipzig Paulinerkirche.
   She was great-grandmother to Louis XVI of France, Louis XVIII of France, Charles X of France and Charles IV of Spain.

Literature

Stichart, Franz Otto: Galerie der sächsischen Fürstinnen; biogr. Skizzen sämtlicher Ahnfrauen des kgl. Hauses Sachsen, Leipzig 1857
Blanckmeister, Franz: Kurfürstin Christiane Eberhardine von Sachsen: eine ev. Bekennerin, Barmen 1892
Meyer, Johannes: Frauengestalten und Frauenwalten im Hause Wettin, Bautzen 1912
Haake, Paul: Christiane Eberhardine und August der Starke: eine Ehetragödie, Dresden 1930
Lauckner, Martin: Eine alte Unterschrift von zarter Hand, in: Sächs. Heimat, Hamburg, Jg. 1981
Czok, Karl: August der Starke und Kursachsen, Leipzig 1987. Aufgeklärter Absolutismus und kirchlich-religiöse Toleranzpolitik bei August dem Starken, In: Sachsen und die Wettiner. Chancen und Realitäten (Sondernummer der Dresdner Hefte); Dresden 1990
Fellmann, Walter: Prinzessinnen. Glanz, Einsamkeit und Skandale am sächsischen Hof, Leipzig 1996

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