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(Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg) Alexander SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG #66563

20 JAN 1572/73 - 13 MAY 1627

Personal Information

  • TITLE: Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
  • BIRTH: 20 JAN 1572/73, Sønderborg, Sonderjylland, Denmark
  • DEATH: 13 MAY 1627, Sønderborg, Sonderjylland, Denmark

Notes

Founder of the House of Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
Cadet House of Oldenburg

Alexander was born in Sønderborg (German: Sonderburg) in Schleswig, the third son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. Because his elder surviving brother chose Ærø as his seat, Alexander received Sønderborg upon their father's death and was in practice its second duke. Alexander died in Sønderborg.

Parents

Father: John II OLDENBURG #77912

Mother: Elisabeth of WELF #71141

Family 1 :

Wife: Dorothea of SCHWARZBURG-SONDERHASUEN

Children:

  1.  +Ernest Gunther I SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG-AUGUSTENBURG #77908

Family 2 :

Wife: Dorothea of SCHWARZBURG-SONDERSHAUSEN

Children:

  1.   August Philipp SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG #68056
  2.  +Ernest Gunther I SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG-AUGUSTENBURG #77908
  3.   Philip Louis SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG #68057
 
                                                  _Frederick I OLDENBURG ___________+
                                                 | (1471 - 1533) m 1502             
                       _Christian III OLDENBURG _|
                      | (1503 - 1558)            |
                      |                          |_Anna of HOHENZOLLERN ____________+
                      |                            (1487 - 1514) m 1502             
 _John II OLDENBURG __|
| (1545 - 1622)       |
|                     |                           _Magnus I ASCANIA ________________+
|                     |                          | (1469 - 1563)                    
|                     |_Dorothea of ASCANIA _____|
|                       (1511 - 1571)            |
|                                                |_Catherine of WELF _______________+
|                                                  (1488 - 1563)                    
|
|--Alexander SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG 
|  (1572 - 1627)
|                                                 _Philip I WELF ___________________+
|                                                | (1476 - 1551)                    
|                      _Ernest III WELF _________|
|                     | (1518 - 1567)            |
|                     |                          |_Catherine of MANSFELD-VORDERORT _
|                     |                            (1501 - 1535)                    
|_Elisabeth of WELF __|
  (1549 - 1585)       |
                      |                           __________________________________
                      |                          |                                  
                      |_Margaret of GRIFFIN _____|
                        (1518 - 1569)            |
                                                 |__________________________________

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