Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Queen consort of Poland Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania
Tenure	15 September 1697 – 1 September 1706
Tenure	1709 – 4 September 1727
Electress consort of Saxony
Tenure	27 April 1694 – 4 September 1727
Born	(1671-12-19)19 December 1671 Bayreuth
Died	4 September 1727(1727-09-04) (aged 55) Pretzsch an der Elbe
Burial	St. Nicholas Evangelical Church, Pretzsch an der Elbe
Spouse	Augustus II of Poland
Issue	Augustus III of Poland
House	Hohenzollern
Father	Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Mother	Sophie Luise of Württemberg

Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (19 December 1671 – 4 September 1727) was Electress of Saxony from 1694 to 1727 (her death) and Queen Consort of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1697 to 1727 by marriage to Augustus II the Strong. Not once throughout the whole of her thirty-year queenship did she set foot in Poland, instead living in Saxony in self-imposed exile. Born a German margravine, she was called Sachsens Betsäule, "Saxony's pillar of prayer", by her Protestant subjects for her refusal to convert to Catholicism. Despite the allegiance of Christiane Eberhardine and her mother-in-law, Anna Sophie of Denmark, to Lutheranism, her husband and son, later Augustus III, both became Catholics, ensuring Catholic succession in the Albertine lands after a century and a half.