How to Pronounce Erdmann August, Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
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Oct 08, 1615 Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany Died on 06 Feb 1651 (aged 35)
Hereditary Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
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About Erdmann August Hereditary Prince Of Brandenburg Bayreuth
- Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b.
- Bayreuth, 8 October 1615 - d.
- Hof, 6 February 1651), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Hereditary Margrave (German: Erbmarkgraf) of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He was the seventh of the nine children of Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by his wife, Marie of Prussia.
- In fact, he was the third-born son but the only one to survive into adulthood; his two older brothers Georg Frederick (b.
- and d.
- 1608) and Christian Ernst (b.
- 1613 - d.
- 1614) died long before his own birth. In Ansbach on 8 December 1641, Erdmann August married the Margravine Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who was also his first cousin (daughter of Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, his father's brother).
- They had only one son: Christian Ernst (b.
- Bayreuth, 6 August 1644 — d.
- Erlangen, 20 May 1712), who became Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.Sophie died on 3 December 1646.
- Erdmann August himself died four years later, aged thirty-five, in the middle of the preparations of his wedding with Sophie Agnes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
- Because he predeceased his father, his son Christian Ernst succeeded as Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth in 1655.
