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| name        = Prince Christian Charles
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| noble family= [[House of Oldenburg|Oldenburg]]
| father      = [[Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg]]
| mother      = [[Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode]]
| spouse      = [[Dorothea Christina of Aichelberg]]
| birth_date  = {{birth_date|1674|8|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Magdeburg]]
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1706|5|23|1674|8|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Sonderburg]]
| burial_place= [[Norburg]]
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Duke '''Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg'''<ref>This is the most common name in the literature; his official title was the same as that of all other male members of the ducal house, viz. ''Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn and Dithmarschen, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, etc.''</ref> (20 August 1674 – 23 May 1706 in [[Sonderburg]]) was an officer in the Brandenburg-Prussian army.
== Life ==
Christian Charles was the younger son of Duke [[Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg|Augustus of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg]] and [[Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode]].  He pursued a career as an officer in the army of [[Brandenburg-Prussia]] and was promoted to colonel on November 30, 1697.  On January 14, 1705, he was promoted to [[Major General]].
After the death of his father, [[Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg|Duke Augustus]], and the accession to power of his older brother [[Joachim Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön|Joachim Frederick]] in 1699, Christian Charles received only a [[paréage]], consisting of the former dominions of his uncle [[Duke Bernhard of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön]]:  viz. Søbygård<ref>[[:da:Søbygård (Ærø Kommune)|Søbygård]] in the Danish Wikipedia</ref> and Gottesgabe, on the island of [[Ærø]].
Christian Charles died of [[smallpox]] in 1706.  He was initially buried in Norburg.  When his son, Frederick Charles, had become Duke of [[Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön]] after a long succession dispute, his body was transferred to the ducal crypt in Plön.
=== Marriage and issue ===
Christian Charles was married on February 20, 1702, in [[Groß-Umstadt]] to [[Dorothea Christina of Aichelberg]] (January 23, 1674 – June 22, 1762), daughter of the [[bailiff]] at Norburg, John Francis of Aichelberg.  The [[morganatic marriage|morganatic]] and secretly contracted marriage led to an agreement with his reigning brother in which Christian Charles waived princely rights for his descendants and adopted the family name "von Karlstein".  Nevertheless, his son Frederick Charles would inherit Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön in 1722, when Joachim Frederick died without a male heir.
The couple had three children:<ref>[http://wwperson.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/l3/LANG=engl/F=Christian@Carl/N=v.Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg-Pl%C3%B6n-Norburg Family overview of Duke Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plon-Norburg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224050253/http://wwperson.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/l3/LANG%3Dengl/F%3DChristian%40Carl/N%3Dv.Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg-Pl%C3%B6n-Norburg |date=2014-02-24 }}</ref>
* Charlotte Amalie (1703 - died as a child)
* Wilhelmina Augusta (1704–1749), married in 1731 with Conrad Detlev of Reventlow, the eldest son of [[Christian Detlev Reventlow]]
* [[Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön|Frederick Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön]] (1706–1761)
== References ==
* {{citation | author=Otto Hedicke | title=Geschichte des Infanterie-Regiments Herzog von Holstein (Holsteinsches) Nr. 85: Fortsetzung der ersten fünf Jahre des Holsteinschen Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 85 | publisher=E.S. Mittler und Sohn | place=Berlin | year=1891 | pages=47 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jBoRAAAAYAAJ | accessdate=2011-06-19 }}
== Footnotes ==
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