Eleanor of Württemberg

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Eleonore Princess of Württemberg (born March 22, 1552 in Tübingen ; † January 12, 1618 at Lichtenberg Castle , Fischbachtal, Hesse) was a German princess.

Life

She was a daughter of Duke Christoph von Württemberg (1515–1568) and Anna Maria Princess von Brandenburg -Ansbach (1526–1589).

At the age of almost 19 she was married on January 9, 1571 in Stuttgart to the widower Joachim Ernst Fürst von Anhalt (1536–1586) , who brought five children into the marriage. Subsequently living in Dessau in the Principality of Anhalt , Eleonore von Anhalt gave birth to ten children.

After the death of her husband in 1586 she married on May 25, 1589 in Darmstadt widowed Landgrave George I of Hesse-Darmstadt . During that seven year marriage, she gave birth to a son.

Then she lived at the court of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar , who had previously been married to her sister Sophie, but now with Anna Maria von der Pfalz-Neuburg . From 1591 the Duke exercised the office of administrator of Electoral Saxony ; for this he had taken up his residence in Torgau .

Eleonore von Hessen-Darmstadt was not only very interested in medicine, but also in other areas of knowledge. Under the pseudonym “Lobesan”, which means “pious, praiseworthy” in Old High German, she wrote a house and recipe book on water, diseases of the body and limbs, diseases of women and children, surgery, and confectionery with the support of the ducal personal doctor and corrector Rebhold and essences, with instructions for proper use. The book was printed in the Fürstlich Sächsische Druckerey zu Torgaw founded by the Duke in 1594 in Hartenfels Castle , which printed evangelical-theological and political writings. This must have happened before 1601.

In the course of the move of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I's court to Weimar in 1601 , or his death in the following year, the princess apparently returned to Hesse , where she died in 1618 at her widow's residence.

Works

  • Six books of exquisite medicinals and tricks, almost in front of all of the physical ailments, from many pharmacopoeias, so kept with princely and other high-ranking persons, are compiled with but diligence and brought into such order that each one without effort, which is useful for falling weakness , can find in it.

progeny

First marriage:

Second marriage:

  • Heinrich (1590–1601)

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Lobesan (aka Princess of Württemberg ..., Eleonore) ", in: Important historical personalities of the Dübener Heide, AMF - No. 237, 2012, pp. 62–63.
personal data
SURNAME Württemberg, Eleonore von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Württemberg, Princess Eleonore von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German princess
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1552
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1618
Place of death Lichtenberg Castle