Augusta Constantia of Frisians

Augusta Constantia Countess of Friesen , b. Countess von Cosel (* February 24, 1708 ; † February 2, 1728 ) was the first daughter of the Saxon Elector Friedrich August I , also called Augustus the Strong , with his mistress Anna Constantia Countess von Cosel and wife of Heinrich Friedrich Graf von Friesen , a later Electorate General of the Infantry and Diplomat.

Life

Augusta Constantia was born as the first daughter of August the Strong with his mistress Anna Constantia von Cosel . After her mother fell out of favor with the Elector of Saxony in 1713, she and her younger sister Friederike Alexandrine were initially taken to Gut Depenau in what is now Schleswig-Holstein , where she grew up with her grandmother Anna Margarethe von Brockdorff for the next few years .

From 1721, Cosel's children were raised under the care of their uncle Woldemar von Löwendal , electoral Saxon court marshal and at that time also cabinet owners and his wife Benedicta Margareta .

At the age of 17, Augusta Constantia was married in 1725 to Heinrich Friedrich Graf von Friesen , 27 years her senior , who was then master of the Electorate of Saxony , later general of the infantry and diplomat. As befits his status, the Saxon elector had a three-week wedding organized at Pillnitz Castle . The wedding ceremony was performed by the Electorate Court preacher Bernhard Walther Marperger in the presence of August the Strong on June 3, 1725. A copy of the wedding sermon he held later found its way into the Beyernaumburg estate archive , the holdings of which are now kept at the Wernigerode location of the Saxony-Anhalt state archive.

In the following years Augusta Constantia gave birth to two sons. At the beginning of 1728 she fell ill with smallpox , which she succumbed to shortly before her twentieth birthday. Her grave is in the crypt of the Schönfeld Church near Dresden under the choir. Several members of the von Friesen family were buried here.

family

The son August Heinrich von Friesen (1727–1755) emerged from the marriage with von Friesen .

literature

• Gabriele Hoffmann : Constantia von Cosel and August the Strong - The story of a mistress . Bastei Lübbe , Bergisch Gladbach 1988, ISBN 978-3-404-61118-8 .

Web links

Commons : Auguste Constanze von Cosel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Reinhard Köpping: ore and nobility. On the life and work of the Baroness von Löwendal. Ed .: Foundation Art Casting Museum Lauchhammer. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Husum 2010, p. 38 .
2. ^ Heinrich Theodor Flathe :  Friesen, Heinrich Friedrich Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 87 f.
3. ↑ Jörg Brückner , Andreas Erb and Christoph Volkmar: Aristocratic archives in the state main archive Saxony-Anhalt - overview of the holdings . In: Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt (Hrsg.): Publications of the state archive administration of the State of Saxony-Anhalt - Series A - Sources on the history of Saxony-Anhalt . tape  20 . Self-published by the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg 2012, p. 203 ( online [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
4. ^ "Entry of the wedding sermon at the wedding of an illegitimate daughter of Augustus the Strong of Countess Auguste Constantia von Cosel with Count Heinrich Friedrich Friesen by the court preacher Dr. Marperger “from June 3, 1725 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the inventory of the Beyernaumburger Gutsarchiv in the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt 
5. ↑ Schönfeld Church. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved January 2, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Internet presence of the Schönfeld-Weissig parish ( memento of January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 2, 2017