Amalia from Neuenahr-Alpen

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Amalia from Neuenahr-Alpen

Amalia von Neuenahr-Alpen (born April 6, 1539 in Alpen ; † April 10, 1602 ibid) was ruling Countess of Limburg by inheritance and Electress of the Palatinate by marriage .

Life

Amalia was born as the eldest daughter of Gumprecht II von Neuenahr-Alpen and Cordula von Holstein-Schauenburg at Schloss Alpen in the dominion of the Alps on the Lower Rhine.

She lost her mother when she was three years old. After her father's death in 1555, she and her half-siblings Magdalena and Adolf were educated and trained at Moerser Schloss , the residence of the guardian and uncle, Count Hermann von Neuenahr - Moers , who was important in the history of the Reformation . The Roman Catholic baptized Amalia was raised by her stepmother Amoena Daun-Falkenstein and her guardian Lutheran educated.

At the age of eighteen she married Heinrich von Brederode in Vianen in January 1557 , one of the later protagonists of the Dutch struggle for freedom . She moved in with him at Batenstein Castle in the Vianen estate . After his early death in the spring of 1568, she married the Calvinist Elector Friedrich III in Heidelberg on April 25, 1569 . from the Palatinate . Shortly before that, the youngest daughter Emilia from the marriage of Wilhelm von Oranien and Anna von Sachsen was born in Cologne . It was named after Amalia, who was running the mother's household at the time.

After the death of her second husband, Amalia was regent from 1579 to 1587 in the reign of Vianen, which she had inherited from her first husband. In 1589 she inherited the county of Limburg from her half-brother Adolf and in 1590 she received from her half-sister Magdalena the rights to rule the Alps , Helpenstein , rule Linnep and the hereditary bailiwick of Cologne . In 1586, the Spaniards occupied the Alps and began the Counter Reformation . Moritz of Orange was able to liberate the rule during his campaign in 1597 and after the siege of Moers . In 1600 Amalia returned to the Alps, reversed the Counter-Reformation and spent the last years of her life there as regent. She died on April 10, 1602 at Schloss Alpen and was buried on April 20 in the crypt of the Protestant church in Alpen. Heinrich von Brederode, her first husband, who was buried in Gemen, was exhumed and transferred to Alpen, where he found his final resting place next to Amalia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See letter from Hubert Languet to Joachim Camerarius the Elder. Ä. of February 13, 1569 from Cologne about an encounter with Anna of Saxony ( princeps Orangii uxor ) and the accompanying "widow Brederode" ( vidua Brederodii ex familia Comitum a Noua aquila ); Ludwig Camerarius , Friedrich Benedict Carpzov (eds.): Huberti Langueti Epistolæ ad Joachium Camerarium Patrem & Filium . 2nd edition Moritz Georg Weidmann, Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main 1685, p. 75 ( Google Books ).

predecessor	Office	Successors
Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach	Electress of the Palatinate 1569–1576	Elisabeth of Hesse
Adolf von Neuenahr	Countess of Limburg 1589–1602	Magdalena von Neuenahr-Alpen