Friederike Charlotte of Stolberg-Gedern (3 April 1686 - 10 January 1739) was a German noblewoman of the House of Stolberg and by marriage a Countess of Solms-Laubach.
Born Friederike Charlotte on April 3, 1686, in Gedern, Hesse, she was the third of the twenty-three children of Count Louis Christian of Stolberg-Gedern (1652 -1710) and Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1663-1749). Her elder siblings, twins Gustav Adolph and an unnamed sister, had died previously on January 17, 1684.
Friedrike was twenty-three years old when she married Friedrich Ernst, Count of Solms-Laubach on December 8, 1709, in Gedern.[1][2] Friedrich Ernst was the president of the Reichskammergerichts and was succeeded by his surviving sons, Friedrich Magnus II and Christian August. Together they had thirteen children of which only three would survive into adulthood:[3][4][5]
Name
Lifespan
Notes
Friederike Ernestine zu Solms-Laubach
1710-1711
Died in infancy.
Friedrich Magnus II zu Solms-Laubach
21 November 1711 - 17 August 1738
President of the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar. Never married and had no issue.
Friederike was only 53 years old when she died on January 10, 1739, at SchloÏ Solms, Laubach, Hesse. She was buried in the local Evangelical church.[citation needed]
↑ Ein goldener Schimmer aus fernen Zeiten. Die Schlossbibliothek zu Laubach lädt mit einer Ausstellung in alte Gärten ein [In:] Unseroberhessen, 88. Jahrgang, 2/2012, S. 20–21.
↑ Michael Sachs: Die Flucht der evangelischen Frau Anna Magdalena von Reibnitz (1664–~1745) mit ihren von der Zwangskatholisierung bedrohten fünf Kindern aus Schlesien im Jahre 1703 – ein Stimmungsbild aus dem Zeitalter der Gegenreformation und des Pietismus. In: Medizinhistorische Mitteilungen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Fachprosaforschung. Band 34, 2015 (2016), S. 221–263, hier: S. 227.
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