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In Zerbst on 17 November 1753 Frederick Augustus first married Caroline (b. Kassel, 10 May 1732 – d. Zerbst, 22 May 1759), daughter of Prince Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel and granddaughter of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. The marriage was childless. In Ballenstedt on 27 May 1764 Frederick Augustus married secondly Fredericka Auguste ...
Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (8 August 1734 – 3 March 1793), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and the last ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst as well as the brother of Catherine the Great. First marriage.
In 1742 princes John Louis II and Christian August of Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg inherited Anhalt-Zerbst. After Christian August's death in 1747, his widow Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp governed the country for her son Frederick Augustus until 1752.
Prince Frederick Augustus Anhalt-Zerbst. Born 8 Aug 1734 in Alt Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia. Ancestors. Son of Christian August (Anhalt-Zerbst) of Anhalt-Zerbst and Joanna Elizabeth (Holstein-Gottorp) of Anhalt-Zerbst.
- August 8, 1734
- March 3, 1793
- County of Anhalt
- Princes of Anhalt
- Dukes of Anhalt
Until his death in 1123, Count Otto had Anhalt Castle built in the Harz mountains near Harzgerode and appears to have been among the first to assume the title of a "Count of Anhalt". He was the father of Albert the Bear, who temporarily was appointed Margrave of the Saxon Eastern March (or March of Lusatia) by the Saxon duke Lothair of Supplinburg ...
On Henry's death in 1252, his three sons partitioned the principality and founded, respectively, the lines of Aschersleben, Bernburg and Zerbst. The family ruling in Aschersleben became extinct in 1315, and this district was subsequently incorporated in the neighboring Bishopric of Halberstadt, thus dividing the territory of Anhalt-Bernburg in two ...
In 1806, Napoleon elevated the remaining states of Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Dessau and Anhalt-Köthen to duchies; in the meantime, Anhalt-Plötzkau and Anhalt-Zerbst had ceased to exist. With the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empirethe duchies became fully independent. The extinction of the Köthen line in 1853 and the Bernburg line in 1863, resulted i...
Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (8 August 1734 in Alt Stettin – 3 March 1793 in Luxembourg), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and the last ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst.
Hanau ; Charles I, Duke of Brunswick; Frederick, Prince of Waldeck; Charles Alexander, Margrave of Anspach-Beryreuth ; and Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. The most important was Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. The Prince was the Catholic ruler of a Protestant people. His first
