Count Of Erbachfrstenau Georg Albrecht Iii

Notable

Count of the German House of Erbach who held the fiefs of Fürstenau, Michelstadt and Breuberg. He was the sixth child and third (but second surviving) son of Philipp Charles, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau and his second wife Anna Sophie, a daughter of Kaspar, Baron of Spesshardt in Unsleben and Mupparg. A minor at the time of his father's death in 1736, Georg Albrecht III and his older brother Ludwig II remained under the guardianship of their older half-brother Johann William until his death in 1742, when Ludwig II (aged 14) and Georg Albrecht III (aged 11) assumed the government jointly until 1747 when they divided their lands: Georg Albrecht III received the districts of Fürstenau, Michelstadt and Breuberg. In Neustadt an der Orla on 3 August 1752 Georg Albrecht III married with Josepha Eberhardine Adolphine Wilhelmine (2 March 1737 – 27 July 1788), a daughter of Christian, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Neustadt and his wife Sophie Christine Eberhardine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. They had five children. George Albrecht III died in Fürstenau aged 46 and was buried in Michelstadt. Link to Wikipedia biography