Dorothea Christina of Aichelberg

Dorothea Christina von Aichelberg (alternative spellings: Dorothee, Dorothy, Chritine, Christiane, von Echelberg, von Aichelburg; 23 January 1674 in Plön – 22 June 1762 in Reinfeld) was the wife of Prince Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg as Frau von Karlstein. Later, as a widow and mother of Frederick Charles, she stood for many years at the center of a succession dispute.

Life Dorothea Christina was the daughter of Johann Franz von Aichelberg (1629–1692), Hofmeister and bailiff in Norburg, and his wife, Anna Sophia von Trautenburg gennant Beyer (1637–1694). Her father belonged to a Roman Catholic Carinthian family whose nobility had been confirmed as of the early 16th century. He held that, under these circumstances, Dorothea Christina would appear to be an appropriate spouse. However, both the court in Norburg and his relatives opposed a morganatic marriage. Charlotte Amalie Ernestine (1703 – died as a child) Wilhelmina Augusta (1704–1749), married in 1731 with Count Conrad Detlev von Reventlow (1704–1749), the eldest son of Count Christian Detlev von Reventlow Frederick Charles (1706–1761)