Augusta of Denmark

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Augusta as a young girl

Augusta of Denmark (born April 8, 1580 at Koldinghus / Kolding Castle ; † February 5, 1639 in Husum ) was the wife of Johann Adolf von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf from 1595 to 1616, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf .

Life

Augusta was a daughter of the Danish King Friedrich II and Sophie von Mecklenburg . After the death of her father in 1588, her mother gained influence in the royal part of Schleswig-Holstein as the guardian of her son Christian IV for a while , before she, ousted by the Imperial Council, withdrew to the secularized Cismar monastery in 1594 , which became the ducal office of Cismar Share belonged. In 1595 Augusta became the duke's wife.

Their marriage was overshadowed by religious disputes: while Johann Adolf leaned towards Calvinism and therefore replaced the Lutheran general superintendent and court preacher Jacob Fabricius with the reformed Philip Caesar in 1610 , the Lutheran Orthodox Augusta attended the service in Schleswig Cathedral . As soon as Duke Johann Adolf died in 1616, they achieved the dismissal of Caesar and the reinstatement of Fabricius in his office.

As a widow, she had only in the short time until her son Friedrich III. political influence. The Trittau office and some Harden on the west coast with the castle in front of Husum , which she was granted as a widow's residence and which she had already lived in regularly before and was now splendidly furnished, served her to supply her . She employed Fabricius' son of the same name as court preacher . On Reinbek Castle , also to their Wittum belonged, they stayed only occasionally, but left several extensions make like a chapel. She had a bitter argument with her brother about her maternal inheritance.

Although Augusta herself adhered to Lutheran orthodoxy , she always held a protective hand over Anna Ovena Hoyers , the widow of the stable Hermann Hoyer, who had made herself suspicious of the clergy as a sectarian. In 1632 she bought her manor house Hoyerswort from the indebted Anna Ovena and brokered her to Maria Eleonora von Brandenburg , the Swedish queen.

progeny

ancestors

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 King Friedrich I (1471–1533)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 King Christian III (1503–1559)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 King Friedrich II. (1534–1588)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Magnus I of Saxony-Lauenburg (1470–1543)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dorothea of ​​Saxony-Lauenburg (1511–1571)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Katharina of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1488–1563)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Augusta of Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Albert VII Duke of Mecklenburg , (1486–1547)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ulrich of Mecklenburg (1527–1603)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna of Brandenburg (1507–1567)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sophie of Mecklenburg (1557–1631)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 King Friedrich I (1471–1533)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elisabeth of Denmark (1524–1586)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514)
 
 
 
 
 
 

As a result of family marriages, King Frederick I of Denmark and his wife Anna of Brandenburg are two great-grandparents of Augusta.

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personal data
SURNAME Augusta of Denmark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (1590–1616)
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH at Koldinghus Castle, Kolding
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1639
Place of death Husum