Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
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After the death of his father in 1630 Christian succeeded him in Anhalt-Bernburg, which at that time was devastated by war. During the first year of his reign, Bernburg was plundered by troops under the Danish General [[Heinrich Holk]] and an epidemic fever killed almost 1,700 inhabitants. In 1636 Schloss Bernburg was almost taken by the marauding troops, but the great courage of the seventy-year-old ''Hofmarschall'' [[Burkhard von Erlach]] prevented this. |
After the death of his father in 1630 Christian succeeded him in Anhalt-Bernburg, which at that time was devastated by war. During the first year of his reign, Bernburg was plundered by troops under the Danish General [[Heinrich Holk]] and an epidemic fever killed almost 1,700 inhabitants. In 1636 Schloss Bernburg was almost taken by the marauding troops, but the great courage of the seventy-year-old ''Hofmarschall'' [[Burkhard von Erlach]] prevented this. |
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His 24 volumes of diaries are preserved; they provide a valuable source of information about the course of the Thirty Years' War.[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011611180 Tagebuch Christians des jüngeren] At the |
His 24 volumes of diaries are preserved; they provide a valuable source of information about the course of the Thirty Years' War.[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011611180 Tagebuch Christians des jüngeren] At the HathiTrust site{{Cite web|url=http://diglib.hab.de/edoc/ed000228/start.htm|title=WDB - Wolfenbütteler Digitale Bibliothek - edoc/ed000228|website=diglib.hab.de|access-date=2020-01-27}} |
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==Marriage and issue== |
==Marriage and issue== |
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