Career

In fact, he was the third-born son but the only one to survive into adulthood. His two older brothers Georg Frederick (b and d 1608) and Christian Ernst (b 1613 - d 1614) died long before his own birth. They had only one son:

Christian Ernst (b Bayreuth, 6 August 1644 - d Erlangen, 20 May 1712), who became Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

Sophie died on 3 December 1646.

Erdmann August himself died four years later, aged thirty-five, in the middle of the preparations of his wedding with Sophie Agnes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.