Frederik Christian II, Duke of Augustenborg
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Portrait of Frederick Christian II, Duke of Augustenborg by Anton Graff
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| Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg | |
| Reign | 13 November 1794–14 June 1814 |
| Predecessor | Frederick Christian I |
| Successor | Christian August II |
| Born |
28 September 1765 Augustenborg Palace, Augustenborg, Denmark |
| Died | 14 June 1814 (aged 48) Augustenborg Palace, Augustenborg, Denmark |
| Burial | Sønderborg Castle |
| Spouse | Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark |
| Issue |
Caroline Amalie, Queen of Denmark Christian August II Frederick, Prince of Noer |
| House | Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg |
| Father | Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg |
| Mother | Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (28 September 1765 in Augustenburg – 14 June 1814 in Augustenburg) was a Danish prince and feudal magnate. He held the island of Als and some other castles (such as Sonderborg) in Schleswig.
He was born the eldest son of Friedrich Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1721–1794), and his cousin Princess Charlotte of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1744–1770). Until his father's death, he was styled "Hereditary Prince of Augustenborg".
He was a prince with an exceptionally high dose of Danish blood in his ancestry, his maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, and paternal great-grandmother having been born, respectively, Countess of Reventlow, Countess of Danneskiold-Samsøe, and Countess of Ahlefeldt-Langeland. He was closely related to all important families of the Danish high nobility of the time. The negative side was that his ancestry was quite much "comital", instead of including royal princesses, and duchesses of petty German states, as was customary with the Oldenburg royal family. Their family was regarded as a bit lower than the Ebenbürtige small rulers of Germany thought to be the standard.
In 1786, however, the twenty-year-old hereditary prince married his distant cousin, the fourteen-year-old Louise Auguste of Denmark and Norway (1771–1843), daughter of the late Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark. Louise Auguste was born during queen's marriage with the insane King Christian VII of Denmark and Norway, but unofficially it was widely known that her natural father was Johann Friedrich Struensee, the king’s court physician and de facto regent of the country at the time of her birth. (Indeed, she was at times referred to as la petite Struensee.)
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