The dowry provided for her in Duke Bernhard II's will was so small that Wilhelm Ernst refused to claim it after the wedding.

When the Duchess made a journey without the permission of her husband, Wilhelm Ernst captured her and confined her in Weimar.

[2] At first, Charlotte Marie went to live with her brother in Jena, but after his death two months later (4 November 1690), she was forced to flee.

Penniless and in debt, she wandered until Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg finally allowed her to reside in his lands permanently.

She lived on a pension at the Gotha court and was involved in other legal proceedings against the House of Saxe-Weimar when she died in 1703, aged 33.