Joachim Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön , also known as Joachim Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön, was the third Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön, a dukedom created by the division of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
Background
He was born in Magdeburg on 9 May 1668, and originally came from an insignificant Plön family branch, a collateral line of Schleswig-Holstein-Nordborg, with its seat at Nordborg Castle on the island of Alsen, itself formed from a division of the inheritance of Plön"s first duke, Joachim Ernest in 1671. He was the eldest son of Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (1635-1699) and his wife, Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1647-1723).
Career
Leopold Augustus died as a child of four in 1706, and the underlying entitlement to the inheritance of Plön passed as a result to Joachim Frederick. Joachim Frederick himself had no male heir when he died in Plön on 25 January 1722, deeply in debt. Plön Castle, the ancestral residence of the dukes of Plön, lay empty for seven years and some of its furniture was sold official
The Danish royal house administered the duchy during this period.
Seven years after the death of Duke Joachim Frederick, Frederick Charles, the son of the morganatic marriage of the late duke"s brother, Christian Charles, was named the fourth Duke of Plön. He would prove to be the last.
Joachim Frederick was married twice. Joachim Frederick and Magdalene Juliana had four daughters:
Charlotte Amalia (1709-1787), who became a nun in Gandersheim Abbey
Elizabeth Juliana (*1711)
Dorothea Augusta Frederica (1712-1765), a nun in Gandersheim Abbey
Christiana Louise (1713–1778)
married in 1735 Count Albert Louis Frederick of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (1716–1744)
married in 1749 Prince Louis Frederick of Saxe-Hildburghausen.