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William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau

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Henry William of Anhalt (b. 4 November 1735 - d. 12 February 1801), a Prussian general; on 10 December 1768 he married Caroline Frederica von Wedel; they had a son, Frederick William (whose descendants became extinct in the male line in 1863), and a daughter, Christiane Frederica Wilhelmine, who
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and, wanting to see her before his death, he had her and his eldest son brought to Dessau, revealed the secret marriage and children to his father, and entrusted their care to him. Prince Leopold raised the eldest son at his court and gave a secret pension to the widow and her other children in
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Kleckewitz. Leopold was succeeded by his younger son Leopold Maximiliam, who gave his brother's widow a house in Dessau and obtained for his children from the Emperor the title of "Counts of Anhalt" on 19 September 1749, without any rights of succession.
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Karl Philipp of Anhalt (b. 1732 - d. 9 May 1806), a Prussian major-general; he married Frederica Albertine von Wedel and had two sons, Frederick William Karl (d. young) and William Karl Frederick (killed in a duel), and a daughter, Auguste,
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after the divorce of her first husband in 1797 married for a second time to Jules Gabriel of Seigneux, later the possible father of the eldest illegitimate son of
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Albert (b. Kleckewitz, 24 June 1735 - d. Dessau, 26 April 1802), a Prussian major-general; married on 24 June 1764 to Sophie Luise Henriette von Wedel (b.
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raised the two illegitimate sons whom William Gustav sired with one "Henriette Marianne Schardius" to the rank of nobility with the surname "of Anhalt":
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Countess Louise Karoline Casimira Sophie of Anhalt (b. Halberstadt, 30 September 1767 - d. Potsdam, 4 April 1842), married in
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In 1706, the eight-year-old William Gustav was appointed a captain and accompanied his father in his campaign against
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Countess Frederica Ferdinandine Wilhelmine of Anhalt (b. Halberstadt, 17 June 1765 - d. Halberstadt, 1 June 1767).
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Count Frederick Henry Leopold Albert of Anhalt (b. Halberstadt, 6 August 1766 - d. Magdeburg, after 1810?).
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Count Frederick Henry William of Anhalt (b. Halberstadt, 31 July 1769 - d. Breslau, 25 February 1792).
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Johanna Sophie (b. Kleckewitz, 9 July 1731 - d. Dessau, 15 July 1786), Abbess of Mosigkau.
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In 1737, during Johanna Sophia's ninth and last pregnancy, William Gustav came down with
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on 20 May 1787 to Count Franz John George of Waldersee, illegitimate son of
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in 1712. In 1713, he obtained the post of chief of the Prussian regiment of
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Count Augustus Gustav of Anhalt (b. Halberstadt, 19 February 1772 - d.
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Leopoldine Anna (b. posthumously, Kleckewitz, 26 January 1738 - d.
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Gustav (b. Kleckewitz, 26 May 1730 - killed in action at
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on the night of 14 March 1726, after which she lived in
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Leopold Louis (b. Kleckewitz, 28 February 1729 - d.
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Index

Dessau
Anhalt-Dessau
Johanna Sophia Herre
House
Ascania
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
Anna Louise Föhse
House of Ascania
Anhalt-Dessau
Dessau
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
morganatic
Anna Louise Föhse
France
Hungary
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Johanna Sophia Herre
Dessau
Kleckewitz
Hornburg
Torgau
Liegnitz
Order of the Black Eagle
Havelberg
Halle
Breslau
St. Petersburg
Catherine II the Great
Bosfeld
Albert Wolfgang, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

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