He was apparently fond of hunting and sword play, and was made a colonel of the Regiment Radziwiłł zu Fuß in 1670. He accompanied his father to Alsace in 1674 during the Franco-Dutch War but the force became bogged down and supply and sanitary problems led to disease in the Brandenburg army.[2]
Karl fell ill himself in late November and was sent to Strasbourg (German: Straßburg - then a free imperial city) to recover but he died of dysentery [2] on 7 December 1674 at Dettlinger Hofe (later Sengenwaldsches Haus in Brandgasse). He was buried on 14 February 1675 in the Hohenzollern Crypt, Berlin Dom (Berlin Cathedral).[1] His coffin or cenotaph still exists, see image here.[3]
His next brother Friedrich, succeeded Karl as Kurprinz and eventually succeeded their father as Elector of Brandenburg as Friedrich III in 1688 and then proclaimed himself King in Prussia in 1701.[4]
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 Grossmann, Julius, Ernst Berner, Georg Schuster & Karl Theodor Zingeler, (eds.), Genealogie des Gesamthauses Hohenzollern, Berlin: W. Moeser Buchhandlung, 1905. pp. 30-31. Digital image, Internet Archivehttps://archive.org/details/genealogiedesges00gros : accessed 5 November 2018.
↑ Huberty, Michel; Alain Giraud; F & B Magdelaine, L'Allemagne Dynastique: Les quinze Familles qui ont fait l'Empire, Tome 5 Hohenzollern-Waldeck, Familles alliees A-B, France, Le Perreux-sur-Marne : Alain Giraud, 1989. p. 89.
See also:
Schwennicke, Detlev. Europäische Stammtafeln, neue folge, Band I.1. Die fränkischen Könige und die Könige und Kaiser, Stammesherzoge, Kurfürsten, Markgrafen und Herzoge des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation, Frankfurt Am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998. Tafel 131
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