Dorothea von Holstein-Beck

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Dorothea von Holstein-Beck, (1685-1761), was a German Princess and Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. She was married to George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and mother-in-law of Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia.

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Dorothea of Holstein-Beck was born to Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and in 1709 married to Margrave Friedrich av Bayreuth. In 1716, she was convicted of adultery and imprisoned in Nürnberg. At the death of her husband in 1734, she was released. She was officially pronounced dead and went to Sweden, where she lived under the name Dorothea von Ziedewitz; first as the guest of governor von Brehmer, then at then with his widow outside Kalmar, and finally with the Lewenhaupt family on Stäflö against a payment of §1000, where she died in 1761.