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{{Short description|German prince}}
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{{infobox royalty
| name = Frederick of Anhalt-Harzgerode
| image = Portret van Friedrich, Fürst zu Anhalt-Bernburg-Harzgerode, RP-P-1911-4135.jpg
| caption =
| house = [[House of Ascania]]
| father = [[Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg]]
| mother = [[Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg]]
| spouse = [[Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar]]<br/>Anna Katharina of Lippe-Detmold
| birth_date = {{birth date|1613|11|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Ensdorf, Bavaria]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1670|6|30|1613|11|16|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Plötzkau]]
}}
'''Frederick of Anhalt-Harzgerode''' (16 November 1613, [[Ensdorf, Bavaria]] &ndash; 30 June 1670, [[Plötzkau]]), was a German prince of the [[House of Ascania]] and the first ruler of the principality of [[Anhalt-Harzgerode]].
He was the fourth (but third surviving son) of [[Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg]], by his wife [[Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg]], daughter of [[Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg]]. In fact, he was the youngest son of his parents who survived into adulthood: his younger brother, Frederick Louis, born in 1619, died in infancy.
==Life==
After the death of his father in 1630, Frederick and his brother Ernest were excluded from the government of [[Anhalt-Bernburg]] by their older brother [[Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Christian II]]. Ernest died two years later, unmarried and childless.
Only in 1635 Christian II concluded a treaty to divide the principality with Frederick, then his only surviving brother, who received [[Harzgerode]].
Frederick ruled his small principality without complications for almost thirty years, until 1665, when the extinction of the line of [[Anhalt-Plötzkau]] changed the original division of the Anhalt principalities. Plötzkau returned to Anhalt-Bernburg, from which it was originally extracted in order to create a new principality; Christian II granted this land to Frederick, who moved there until his death, five years later.
From 1660 until 1668, Frederick was [[heir presumptive]] to the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg, preceded only by his nephew [[Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Victor Amadeus]].
==Marriages and Issue==
In [[Bückeburg]] on 10 August 1642 Frederick married [[Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar|Johanna Elisabeth]] (b. [[Dillenburg]], 7 January 1619 – d. Harzgerode, 2 March 1647), daughter of [[John Louis, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar]]. They had three children:
#[[William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode]] (b. Harzgerode, 18 August 1643 – d. Harzgerode, 14 October 1709).
#Anna Ursula (b. Harzgerode, 24 June 1645 – d. Harzgerode, 25 February 1647).
#[[Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode|Elisabeth Charlotte]] (b. Harzgerode, 11 February 1647 – d. [[Osterholm]], 20 January 1723), married on 25 August 1663 to [[William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen]], then for a second time on 6 October 1666 to [[Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg]].
In [[Harzgerode]] on 26 May 1657 Frederick married for a second time to Anna Katharina (b. [[Brake (Lemgo)|Brake]], 31 July 1612 – d. Harzgerode, 15 October 1659), daughter of [[Simon VII, Count of Lippe]]-Detmold. This union was childless.
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before=[[Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Christian I]] |
title=[[Anhalt-Harzgerode|Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode]]|
years=1635–1670|
after=[[William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode|William Louis]]}}
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