Karl Ludwig ( German: Karl Ludwig ; September 18, 1690 - September 22, 1774 , Koenigsberg ) - Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Bek ( German: Herzog von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck) ), awarded the rank of Russian Field Marshal .
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| Successor | Peter Augustus | ||||||
| Heir | son Karl Friedrich (1732-1772) | ||||||
| Birth | September 18, 1690 | ||||||
| Death | September 22, 1774 (84 years old) Königsberg | ||||||
| Kind | Oldenburgs | ||||||
| Father | Friedrich Ludwig (1653-1728) | ||||||
| Mother | Louise Charlotte, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1658-1740) | ||||||
| Spouse | Countess Anna Carolina Ozhelskaya | ||||||
| Children | Karl Friedrich (1732-1772) | ||||||
| Religion | Protestant , since 1723 - Catholic | ||||||
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| Rank | Field Marshal (Russia) | ||||||
It came from the Beck branch of the Holstein-Sonderburg line of the Oldenburg dynasty . The third son (fifth child) is Friedrich Ludwig (1653-1728), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Bek (from 1719) and his wife Louise Charlotte, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1658-1740). Parents were cousins.
Through the Danish king Frederick I - six-cousin uncle Peter III .
In 1723 he converted to Catholicism .
The ducal throne inherited on May 6, 1757 , when his childless nephew Friedrich ( Eng. Frederick William III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck ), Prussian colonel , was killed in the battle of Prague ( Seven Years War ).
In 1762 he was granted by Emperor Peter III to the Russian Field Marshals . In the Russian military service was not. The famous historian D.N. Bantysh-Kamensky believed that the duke and several others were
awarded this honorary title due to noble origin.
- "Biographies ..." [1]
His successor at the head of the Holstein-Beck Duchy was his younger brother Peter Augustus , who also bore the title of Russian Field Marshal.
Family
In 1730, in Dresden, he married Countess Anna Carolina Ozhelska ( 1707 - 1769 ), the illegitimate daughter of the King of Poland , Elector of Saxony Augustus the Strong . Three years later they divorced. Sole child:
- Karl Friedrich ( January 5, 1732 , Dresden - February 21, 1772 , Strasbourg ) was not married.
Notes
- ↑ Bantysh-Kamensky, D.N. Foreword // Biographies of Russian generalissimo and field marshal general In 4 parts. Reprint reproduction of the 1840 edition. Part 1-2 . - M .: Culture , 1991 .-- 620 p. - ISBN 5-7158-0002-1 .