Anna of Pfalz-Veldenz

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Anna von Veldenz - Margravine of Baden-Durlach

Anna von Pfalz-Veldenz (born November 12, 1540 , † March 30, 1586 in Graben ) was a born Countess Palatine of Pfalz-Veldenz and by marriage Margravine of Baden-Durlach . From 1577 to 1584 she was involved in the guardianship of the margraviate of Baden-Durlach.

Life

Anna was the eldest child of Count Palatine Ruprecht von Veldenz (1506–1544) from his marriage to Ursula (1515–1601), daughter of the Wild and Rhine Count Johann VII. Zu Salm-Kyrburg .

In his second marriage on August 1, 1558, she married Margrave Karl II of Baden-Durlach (1529–1577) in Heidelberg . Like her husband, Anna was Lutheran, and the children of both marriages grew up in this belief as well.

When her husband passed away, the sons were still minors. Therefore she formed a guardianship government in 1577 until they came of age and involved the Elector Ludwig VI. of the Palatinate and Duke Ludwig the Pious of Württemberg . As co-guardian, she signed the concord formula of 1577 and the concord book of 1580 on behalf of her sons Ernst Friedrich and Jakob. The margraviate of Baden-Durlach handed them over to her son Ernst Friedrich in 1584. Her son Jakob became Margrave of Baden-Hachberg with residence in Emmendingen . After his conversion to the Catholic faith, he initiated the re-Catholicization of his area in 1590, but died shortly afterwards of arsenic poisoning , whereby the rule fell back to his brother Ernst Friedrich. Georg Friedrich took over the rule of his brother Ernst Friedrich after his death in 1604 and brought the lines back together.

Margravine Anna's young court chaplain , Johannes Zehender , looked after her pastoral care in the last year of her life and gave an impressive funeral sermon on April 5, 1586.

progeny

Anna had the following children from their marriage:

⚭ 1575 Duke Ludwig of Württemberg (1554–1593)
⚭ 1585 Princess Anna of East Frisia (1562–1621)
  • Jacob III (1562–1590), Margrave of Baden-Hachberg
⚭ 1584 Countess Elisabeth von Cuylemburg (1567–1620)
  • Anna Marie (1565–1573)
  • Elisabeth (1570-1611)
  • Georg Friedrich (1573–1638), Margrave of Baden-Durlach
⚭ 1. 1592 Wild and Rhine Countess Juliane Ursula von Salm-Neufville (1572–1614)
⚭ 2. 1614 Countess Agathe von Erbach (1581–1621)
⚭ 3rd ( morganatic ) 1621 Elisabeth Stotz († 1652)

literature

  • Johannes Zehender: Third of the "three funeral sermons of Christian and godly dying / the translucent ... Anna Marggräfin zu Baden , Tübingen, 1586

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See BSLK , p. 16 and p. 763f; there wrongly " Anna Bombast von Hohenheim " († 1574).
predecessor Office successor
Charles II Regent of the margraviate of Baden-Durlach
1577–1584 		Ernst Friedrich
personal data
SURNAME Anna of Pfalz-Veldenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anna of Baden-Durlach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess Palatinate of Pfalz-Veldenz and by marriage Margravine of Baden-Durlach
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1540
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1586
Place of death dig