Career

In Merseburg on 18 February 1680 Sophie Hedwig married Johann Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Three years before (1677) one of Sophie Hedwig"s sisters, Christiane, married Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg, in turn one of Johann Ernest"s older brothers, so probably this marriage was instrumental for her future wedding. The union produced five children, of whom only two survive adulthood:

Christiane Sophie (b Saalfeld, 14 June 1681 – d Saalfeld, 3 June 1697).

Stillborn daughter (Saalfeld, 6 May 1682).

Christian Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b Saalfeld, 18 August 1683 – d Saalfeld, 4 September 1745). Charlotte Wilhelmine (b Saalfeld, 4 May 1685 – d Hanau, 5 April 1767), married on 26 December 1705 to Philip Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg.

Stillborn son (Saalfeld, 2 August 1686). Sophie Hedwig died in childbirth in Saalfeld, two days before her twenty-six birthday.

She was buried in the Johanniskirche, Saalfeld.