page_title: Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön and his family in the garden of Schloss Traventhal, 1759; From left: his youngest daughter, Princess Louise Albertine, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg, Duke Friedrich Carl, his oldest daughter, Princess Friederike Sophie, Countess of Erbach-Schönberg, his wife Duchess Christine, born Reventlow, his mother Dorothea Christine, born Aichelberg, an African servant, and finally his second daughter, Princess Charlotte Amalie, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.
context_page_description: Frederick Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, known as Friedrich Karl or Friedrik Carl of Holstein-Plön, was a member of a cadet branch of the Danish royal family and the last duke of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, a Danish royal prince, and a knight of the Order of the Elephant. When he died without a male heir born of his marriage to Countess Christine Armgard von Reventlow, rule of the Duchy of Holstein-Plön returned to the Danish crown.
context_section_description: Frederick Charles had six children from his marriage with Christine Armgard von Reventlow (1711-1779, a daughter of the Danish general Christian Detlev, Count von Reventlow, and niece of the Danish queen consort Anne Sophie Reventlow), who, as his mother, had been born into a non-dynastic noble family:
  Princess Sophia Christine Luise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (November 5, 1732, Plön – March 18, 1757, Quedlinburg), a canoness of Quedlinburg Abbey.
  Princess Fredericka Sophie Charlotte of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (November 18, 1736, Plön – January 4, 1769, Schönberg), who married Georg Ludwig II of Erbach-Schönberg.
  Prince Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (November 2, 1738, Plön – February 27, 1740, Plön), who died in infancy.
  Stillborn child (March 1741, Plön).
  Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (April 23, 1744, Plön – October 11, 1770, Augustenburg), who married Frederick Christian I of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and who became a great-great-grandmother of the last German empress.
  Princess Louise Albertine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (July 21, 1748, Plön – March 2, 1770, Ballenstedt), who married Frederick Albert of Anhalt-Bernburg.
  Additionally, Frederick Charles had children by two mistresses:  by Sophie Agnes Olearius, with whom he conducted a six-year liaison, six daughters; and by his maîtresse-en-titre, Maria Catharina Bein, sister of the court chamberlain, three sons (two of whom died childless) and two daughters (one of whom died in childhood), all of whom the duke recognized and legitimated, and on whom (or their mothers) he bestowed lands, titles, and money.
caption: Frederick Charles, his wife, his three younger daughters, his mother, and a servant in the garden of Schloss Traventhal, 1759.
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