Anna of Saxony (1567–1613)
Anna of Saxony (born November 16, 1567 in Dresden , † January 27, 1613 at the Veste Coburg ) was a Saxon princess from the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Saxony-Coburg .
Life
Anna was the youngest daughter of the Elector August von Sachsen (1526–1586) from his marriage to Anna (1532–1585), daughter of King Christian III. from Denmark .
On May 5 and 6, 1584, the two daughters of Elector Augustus, Anna and Dorothea, were married twice. "All kinds of delicacies were organized" to celebrate. At the shooting held for this, the Reichsgulden was minted at 21 groschen .
On January 16, 1586, Anna married Duke Johann Casimir von Sachsen-Coburg (1564–1633) in Dresden , to whom she had already got engaged two years before without parental consent. Anna received 30,000 thalers as a dowry and the dominion of Römhild was determined as Wittum . The cheerful and carefree duchess soon excelled at grand court parties.
Johann Casimir, however, loved the hunt more and therefore stayed away from the court more and more often for several weeks. When Anna broke up in 1593, Johann Casimir immediately enforced the divorce and had Anna and her lover Ulrich von Lichtenstein imprisoned. Despite Anna's pleading letters to her husband and relatives not to cast them away and to show mercy, both were sentenced to death by the sword by the Schöppenstuhl in Jena . However, Johann Casimir converted the death sentence to life imprisonment and looked after his wife himself, as the court of the Electorate of Saxony did not want to accept her in Dresden. In doing so, she shared the fate of her sister Elisabeth .
Anna spent her 20-year captivity first in Eisenach , then until 1596 in the abolished Sonnefeld monastery and finally at the Veste Coburg, where she died in 1613. She was buried in the monastery church of Sonnefeld .
Johann Casimir married Anna's cousin Margarethe von Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1599 and, according to Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel, is said to have humiliated his first wife with a coin minted for the occasion ; on their obverse a couple kissing each other with the inscription HOW KVSSEN DIE TWOY SO FEIN can be seen, on the other side Anna with the words: WHO KVST ME - Poor NVNNELIN.
ancestors
literature
- August Beck: Anna . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 471.
- Thomas Nicklas: The House of Saxony-Coburg - Europe's late dynasty. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-017243-3 .
- Carl Kiesewetter : Faust in history and tradition , Georg Olms Verlag 1978
- M. Berbig: Anna of Saxony, first wife of Johann Casimir von Coburg-Gotha , s. N.
- Eduard Vehse : History of the courts of the House of Saxony , Hamburg 1854, p. 14
- Ludwig Bechstein : Thüringer Sagenbuch , p. 17
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : The time of my life was little and bad - Anna von Sachsen (1567–1613) , Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-941757-70-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julius Erbstein, Albert Erbstein: Discussions in the field of the Saxon coin and medal history ... (1888), p. 71: Reichsgulden zu 21 Groschen under Schießkleinode
- ^ For the princely supplement of Duke Johann Casimir's at Heldburg Castle and in Coburg see: Norbert Klaus Fuchs: Das Heldburger Land - a historical travel guide; Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2
- ↑ Simone Bastian: Anna was not meant at all . Coburger Tageblatt, October 2, 2015, p. 11
Web links
- Anne-Simone Knöfel: Anna of Saxony . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anna of Saxony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duchess of Saxe-Coburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1567 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1613 |
| Place of death | Veste Coburg |