Frederick Henry, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt


Frederick Heinrich of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt, was a German prince of the House of Wettin.
He was the fourth son of Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, and his second wife, Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar.

Life

In Öls on 23 April 1699, Frederick Henry married Sophie Angelika of Württemberg-Oels. Shortly after, his older brother, Duke Moritz Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, gave him the towns of Pegau and Neustadt as appanage. From then on, he assumed the title duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt. His wife Sophie died after only nineteen months of marriage on 11 November 1700.
In Moritzburg on 27 February 1702, Frederick married for a second time to Anna Fredericka Philippine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg. They had two children:
  1. Maurice Adolph Charles, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt, Bishop of Hradec Králové and Litoměřice, he died without issue.
  2. Dorothea Charlotte died in infancy.
The death of his nephew, the Hereditary Duke Frederick August, on 17 February 1710, made him the heir apparent of the duchy of Saxe-Zeitz, because his immediate older brother Christian August was a priest.
Nevertheless, he died three years later, five before his brother Maurice Wilhelm. His only son, Maurice Adolf Karl, succeeded him in Pegau-Neustadt, but, still a minor, he was placed under the custody of his uncle Maurice Wilhelm and became the new heir apparent of Saxe-Zeitz. However, soon afterwards the young Maurice Adolf himself became a priest and renounced his claims to the duchy, which made the extinction of the Saxe-Zeitz line inevitable.
Without other male heirs, Zeitz was finally merged into the Electorate of Saxony after the death of Maurice Wilhelm.