Amalia Maria Therese von Pfalz-Sulzbach

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Amalia Maria Therese von Pfalz-Sulzbach also Amalia Sophia (* May 31, 1651 ; † December 11, 1721 in Cologne ) was a Wittelsbach princess from the Pfalz-Sulzbach family branch and became a Discalced Carmelite .

Origin and family

She was born as the second child of Duke Christian August von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1622–1708) and his wife Amalie (1615–1669), daughter of Count Johann VII of Nassau-Siegen , widow of Hermann von Wrangel . Both parents and their children converted to the Catholic Church in 1656.

Live and act

Amalia Maria Therese von Pfalz-Sulzbach entered the Cologne monastery of St. Maria in the Kupfergasse on March 19, 1683 and became a Discalced Carmelite. In 1714 her niece Maria Anna Amalia Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1693–1762) followed her as a religious. According to an old monastery chronicle edited by St. Edith Stein , it was the greatest joy and consolation in life for Amalia Maria Therese to have her niece with her as a sister. In the same source it says of her: “She despised the world and chose the holy order, gave the world an edifying example, soon after her entry forgot her origin and her name and laid hands on the lowest household chores, drew meager food and drank before all delicacies, enjoyed the most ordinary. She seems to have foreseen the hour and cause of death by God's grace. After confession and receiving the heavenly food for the journey, she steadfastly awaited death and died piously in the Lord, on December 11, 1721, 71 years old. ” After her death, she was buried in the monastery of St. Maria in the Kupfergasse. According to the current pastor, Klaus-Peter Vosen, the graves of the Carmelites were destroyed in World War II and the bones found were later transferred to a collective grave in the cloister of the church.

The church belonging to Carmel was then dedicated to St. Joseph. As Christian Häutle in the "Genealogy of the illustrious parent company Wittelsbach" and Prince Adalbert of Bavaria in the book "The Wittelsbachers: History of our Family" state, Amalia Maria Therese was nicknamed "The beggar of St. Joseph" because of her poverty in Cologne. .

Family environment

Her nephew Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach († 1729) had married Elisabeth Auguste Sofie von der Pfalz (1693–1728) in 1717 , the only surviving child of Palatine Elector Karl III. Philipp († 1742) and was considered the presumptive heir to the throne of the Electoral Palatinate until his untimely death . In the year of his death, he had a Loreto chapel with the miraculous image of the Black Madonna built , based on the example of his aunt and sister Maria Anna Amalia Auguste's Cologne monastery, near Mannheim , which still exists today as the pilgrimage church of the Assumption in Oggersheim . King Max I Joseph of Bavaria is his grandson.

Johann Christian Joseph von Pfalz-Sulzbach († 1733), another nephew, became the father of the Palatinate-Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , Volume 148, 2008, p. 112; (Cutout scan 1) , (Cutout scan 2)
  2. ↑ Edith Stein : Spiritual Texts , Volume 1, p. 157, Volume 19 of: Edith Stein Gesamtausgabe , Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 2009, ISBN 3451273896 , book excerpt, p. 95 of the PDF document
  3. ↑ Mail to the author, dated February 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Adalbert von Bayern : Die Wittelsbacher: History of our family , Prestel Verlag, 1979, p. 432; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Pfalz-Sulzbach, Amalia Maria Therese von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfalz-Sulzbach, Amalia Sophia von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess from the House of Wittelsbach and Carmelite
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1651
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1721
Place of death Cologne