Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg

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Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Portrait of Francis II of Saxe-Lauenburg with his wife Maria and their family in St. Mary's Church in Büchen
Spouse(s) Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Noble family House of Guelph
Father Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Mother Hedwig of Brandenburg
Born (1566-01-13)13 January 1566
Schladen
Died 13 August 1626(1626-08-13) (aged 60)
Lauenburg

Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (born: 13 January 13, 1566 in Schladen; died: 13 August 1626 in Lauenburg) was a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Life

Mary was a daughter of the Duke Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1528–1589) from his marriage to Hedwig (1540–1602), daughter of the Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg.

She married on 10 November 1582 [1] at Wolfenbüttel with Duke Francis II of Saxe-Lauenburg (1547–1619). She was his second wife. She was given Franzhagen Castle as her wittum; she created a Meierhof and a court church there.[2]

Maria died in 1626 and was buried alongside her husband in the ducal family crypt in the Mary Magdalene Church in Lauenburg.[3]

Issue

Maria's coat-of-arms as of 1608 on St. Jacobi Church in Cuxhaven. Abbreviated inscription: V.[on] G.[ottes] G.[naden] M.[arie] G.[eborene] Z.[u] B.[raunschweig] U.[nd] L.[üneburg] – 2nd line – H.[erzogin] Z.[u] S.[achsen,] E.[ngern] V.[nd] W.[estfalen] (trl. Of God's Grace Mary née of Brunswick and Lunenburg – 2nd line – Duchess of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia).
Maria and Francis had 14 children, of whom the following 12 reached adulthood:

References

  • Johann Samuel Ersch: Allgemeine encyclopädie der wissenschaften und künste, Part 1, vol. 28, J. f. Gleditsch, 1848, p. 69
This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

Footnotes

  1. Wilhelm Havemann: Geschichte der Lande Braunschweig und Lüneburg, vol. 2, Dieterichsche buchhandlung, 1855, p. 418
  2. Johann Friedrich Burmester: Beiträge zur Kirchengeschichte des Herzogthums Lauenburg, self-published, 1832, p. 150
  3. Andrea Baresel-Brand: Grabdenkmäler nordeuropäischer Fürstenhäuser im Zeitalter der Renaissance 1550-1650, Verlag Ludwig, 2007, p. 241
  4. John Albert II was a brother of Duke Adolphus Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
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