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William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau (20 June 1699 – 16 December 1737) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and heir to the principality of Anhalt-Dessau. He was born in Dessau, the eldest son of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, by his morganatic wife Anna Louise Föhse. Life
1 de may. de 2022 · Birthplace: Dessau, Dessau Roßlau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Death: December 16, 1737 (38) Dessau, Dessau Roßlau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Immediate Family: Son of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Anna Luise Marie Föhse, Reichsfürstin. Husband of Johanna Sophie Herre. Partner of Henriette Marianne Schardius.
- Dessau Roßlau, Sachsen-Anhalt
- Henriette Marianne Schardius
- Sachsen-Anhalt
- June 20, 1699
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William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau (20 June 1699 – 16 December 1737) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and heir to the principality of Anhalt-Dessau. He was born in Dessau, the eldest son of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, by his morganatic wife Anna Louise Föhse.
- Origins
- Marriage and Issue
- Death of The Hereditary Prince and First Years of Widowhood
- Imperial Countess of Anhalt
- Death
On her mother's side, Johanna Sophia Herre comes from a long-established and wealthy family of merchants and pharmacists. Her mother, Katharina Dorothea Starke (died 1767), was the daughter of the respected Rector of the Dessau Latin school. Her father, Christian Herre (1646–1720), formerly Mayor of Jeßnitz—he had acquired his fortune as a merchant...
How and where Johanna Sophia Herre and William Gustav, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau met is unknown; however, the two were distantly related: they shared a common great-grandmother, Eleonora Blandina Schulze (1621–1696), who was married successively to the pharmacists Dominicus Starke (Johanna Sophia Herre's great-grandfather) and Christoph Fö...
In December 1737 William Gustav became infected with smallpox. Despite the risk of infection, Johanna Sophia Herre (at that time heavily pregnant) visited her husband secretly at his sick bed. In the face of his fatal illness, he revealed his secret marriage and paternity to his brother Maurice. Two days later, on 16 December 1737, the Hereditary P...
Johanna Sophia Herre continue to lived in seclusion at Gut Kleckewitz until the Prince Leopold I's death on 9 April 1747. Her three older sons joined the Prussian army, the younger children were raised together by her and the appointed guardian, Prince Maurice. This situation changed when the new Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Leopold II Maximilian, bega...
Imperial Countess Johanna Sophia of Anhalt was in good health all her life. She survived seven of her nine children before dying during her sleep in her home on 5 June 1796 and just one month before her 90th birthday. Immediately after her death, Prince Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau had a representative tombstone erected for his aunt the Imperial Co...
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8 de ago. de 2021 · William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 20 June 1699 - d. Dessau, 16 December 1737), was a German Prince member of the House of Ascania and heir of the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau. He was the eldest son of
