Christopher I, Margrave of Baden-Baden

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Christopher I of Baden (13 November 1453 – 19 April 1527) was a Margrave of Baden-Baden in 1475 - 1515.

Christopher was the elder son of Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden and his wife Katharina of Austria. He built the New Castle and moved there in 1479. In 1515 he divided his possessions between his sons Bernhard, Philip and Ernst. Thus, Bernhard founded so-called "Bernardine line" of Bade-Baden and Ernst founded the "Ernestine line" of Baden-Durlach.

[edit] Family and children

Margrave Christopher married on 19 December 1468 with Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen (ca. 1451 – 15 August 1517), a niece of Count Philip of Katzenelnbogen. They had the following children:

1. Ottilie (6 June 1470 – 1490), Abbess in Pforzheim
2. Jakob (6 June 1471 – 27 April 1511, Cologne), Archbishop of Trier
3. Marie (2 July 1473 – 9 January 1519); Abbess in Lichtenthal
4. Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (7 April 1474 – 29 June 1536)
5. Charles (21 June 1476 – 7 October 1510), canon in Strasbourg and Trier
6. Christopher (21 July 1477 – 29 March 1508), canon in Strasbourg and Trier
7. Philip, Margrave of Baden-Baden (10 December 1478 – 17 September 1533)
8. Rudolf (16 June 1481 – 23 September 1532), canon in Mainz, Cologne, Strasbourg and Augsburg
9. Ernst, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (7 October 1482 – 6 February 1553)
10. Wolfgang (10 May 1484 – 24 June 1522)
11. Sibylle (26 April 1485 – 10 July 1518), married on 24 January 1505 to Count Philip III of Hanau-Lichtenberg
12. Rosine (5 March 1487 – 29 October 1554), married:
    1. in 1503 to Count Francis Wolfgang of Hohenzollern;
    2. to Johann von Ow zu Wachendorf
13. John (d. 19 June 1490)
14. Beatrix (22 January 1492 – 4 April 1535), married in 1508 to Pfalzgraf John II of Pfalz-Simmern
15. Georg (1 July 1493 – 16 November 1493)

[edit] External links and references

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
• Article in the ADB