Frederick Charles, Count of Erbach-Limpurg


Frederick Charles, Count of Erbach-Limpurg, was a German prince member of the House of Erbach and ruler over the Lordship of Limpurg-Michelbach and over Erbach, Freienstein, Wildenstein, Michelstadt and Breuberg.

Biography

Born in Erbach, he was the fourteenth child and sixth son of George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach and his wife Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck-Eisenberg, a daughter of Philipp Dietrich, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg.
After the death of his father in 1693, Frederick Charles and his surviving older brothers inherited all the Erbach-Erbach domains; however, as the last surviving son of sixteen children, he was still a minor and the government of the lands and legal guardianship were held by the oldest brother Philipp Louis, who managed to rule alone even after his brothers attained majority.
On 18 May 1711 Frederick Charles married Sophie Eleonore, youngest daughter of Vollrath, Schenk of Limpurg-Speckfeld in Obersontheim. They had four children:
As Sophie Eleonore was one of the five surviving daughters and co-heiresses of Vollrath of Limpurg, when her father, died in 1713 Frederick Charles received the Lordship of Michelbach as part of the inheritance, and the rights to assume the arms and titles of Limpurg.
In 1720 after the death of his brother Philipp Louis without issue, Frederick Charles finally inherited the Erbach-Erbach inheritance as sole ruler.
Frederick Charles died in Erbach aged 50 and was buried in Michelstadt. He died without a surviving male issue and the Erbach-Erbach domains were inherited by the branch of Erbach-Schönberg, but the Limpurg inheritance was divided between his daughters, who passed it on to their descendants.