Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1614–1646)

Sophia of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach (10 June 1614 – 3 December 1646) was a German noblewoman of the house of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

Life

She was the eldest child of Sophie of Solms-Laubach and her husband Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. In Ansbach on 8 December 1641, she married Erdmann August, Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bayreuth - since his father and her father were brothers, they were first cousins. Sophie and Erdmann August had only one child, Christian Ernst (b. Bayreuth, 6 August 1644 - d. Erlangen, 20 May 1712), who became Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

Sources

• Theodor Hirsch (1881), "Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 14, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 91