Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg


Prince Frederick Emil August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, usually simply known by just his first name, Frederick, Prince of Noer, was a prince of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and a cadet-line descendant of the Danish royal house.
He was the second and youngest son of Louise Auguste of Denmark and Frederik Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. As such, he was close to succeed in the Danish throne. He was the brother-in-law of King Christian VIII and nephew of King Frederik VI. His elder brother, Christian August II, succeeded in 1814 as the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.
After his second, morganatic union, he renounced the rights of succession to House of Augustenburg. He was created Prince of Noer or Nør by Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria afterwards.
Prince Frederick died 1865 at Bayreuth.

Marriage and issue

Frederick married on 17 September 1829, at Augustenburg, his second cousin Countess Henriette of Danneskjold-Samsøe who was a Danish noblewoman and great-great-great granddaughter of Christian V of Denmark, belonging to an illegitimate branch of the House of Oldenburg. His brother had married his wife's elder sister nine year previous. They had four children:
  1. Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, married in 1870 Carmelita Eisenblat and took the title Count of Noer
  2. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, died young
  3. Princess Louise Caroline Henriette Auguste of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, married in 1865 Prince Michael Vlangali-Handjeri, a maternal grandson of Alexander Handjeri
  4. Princess Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, died young
After Henriette's death, Frederick married morganatically on 3 November 1864, at Paris, Mary Esther Lee, the third daughter of David Lee, a New York merchant. They were childless. Eight years after the death of her first husband, the Princess married Count Alfred von Waldersee, a General who was later created Field Marshal.

Ancestry