Frederick Henry, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt
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Frederick Heinrich of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (b. Moritzburg, 21 July 1668 - d. Neustadt an der Orla, 18 December 1713), was a German prince and member of the House of Wettin.
He was the fourth (sixth in order of birth) but third surviving son of Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz and his second wife, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Weimar.
[edit] Life
In Öls on 23 April 1699, Frederick Heinrich married firstly with Sophie Angelika of Württemberg-Bernstadt. Shortly after, his older brother, the duke Maurice Wilhelm of Saxe-Zeitz, give him the towns of Pegau and Neustadt as appanage. From this moment, he assumed the title of Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (Herzog von Sachsen-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt). His wife Sophie died after only nineteen months of marriage, on 11 November 1700.
In Moritzburg on 27 February 1702, Frederick married secondly with Anna Fredericka Philippine of Scheleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg. They had two children:
- Maurice Adolf Karl (b. Moritzburg, 1 December 1702 - d. Pöltenberg, 20 June 1759), Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (1713-18), Bishop of Hradec Kralove (Königrgrätz) (1732) and Litomerice (Leitmeritz) (1733-52),
- Dorothea Charlotte (b. Moritzburg, 20 May 1708 - d. Moritzburg, 8 November 1708).
The death of his nephew, the Hereditary Duke Frederick August (17 February 1710), make him the heir apparent of the duchy of Saxe-Zeitz, because his immediate older brother, Christian August, was a priest.
Nevertheless, he died three years later, five before his brother the duke Maurice Wilhelm. Without other male heir (Frederick Heinrich's son was also a priest), after the death of Maurice Wilhelm, Zeitz was finally merged by the Electorate of Saxony.
