Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Queen of Poland
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Place of Birth: Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
About Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (19 December 1671 – 4 September 1727) was Electress of Saxony from 1694 to 1727 (her death) and titular Queen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1697 to 1727 by marriage to Augustus II the Strong.
- Not once throughout the whole of her thirty-year queenship did she set foot in Poland, instead living in Saxony in self-imposed exile.
- Born a German margravine, she was called Sachsens Betsäule, "Saxony's pillar of prayer", by her Protestant subjects for her refusal to convert to Catholicism and her loyalty to the Protestant faith.
- Despite the allegiance of Christiane Eberhardine and her mother-in-law, Anna Sophie of Denmark, to Lutheranism, her husband and son, later Augustus III, both became Catholics, ensuring Catholic succession in the Albertine lands after a century-and-a-half.
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| Date of birth/death | 23 June 1675 | 11 April 1760 | |
| Location of birth/death | Sceaux, France | Paris | |
| Work location | since 1716 court painter in Dresden and Warsaw | ||
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