Dorothea Katharina of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Dorothea Katharina von Brandenburg-Ansbach (* February 23, 1538 in Ansbach , † January 18, 1604 in Theusing ) was a princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and by marriage Countess of Meißen .

Life

Dorothea Katharina was a daughter of Margrave Georg von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484–1543) from his third marriage to Aemilia (1516–1591), daughter of Duke Heinrich of Saxony .

She married on February 2, 1556 in Gera Heinrich V. von Plauen , Burgrave of Meißen (1533–1568). The wedding of the financially troubled burgrave was celebrated with completely inadequate display of magnificence; 1,500 people were loaded with 970 horses, 250 of them aristocrats, and Heinrich plunged into considerable debts, which prompted him to sign the Annaberg Treaty with Elector August of Saxony on March 13th, which initiated the loss of the Vogtland .

From her marriage Dorothea Katharina had four sons named Heinrich, who were born between 1557 and 1567, but all of them died in childhood. Dorothea Katharina was buried in 1607 (three years after her death) at the instigation of her great cousin, Elector Christian II , in the Johanniskirche in Plauen . Her husband Heinrich V, on the other hand, is buried in the mountain church in Schleiz .

literature

• Karl Friedrich Pauli: General Prussian State History, including all associated kingdoms, electorates, duchies, principalities, counties and lordships, from proven writers and documents up to the present government , CP Francken, 1762, p. 475 f.
• Joh.Gottlieb Jahn: Documented chronicle of the city of Oelsnitz and the castle and office of Voigtsberg , Expedition des Oelsnitzer, 1841, p. 69

Individual evidence

1. ^ Archives for Saxon History , Volume 10, B. Touchnitz., 1865, p. 140 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ Berthold Schmidt : Burgrave Heinrich IV of Meißen, Colonel Chancellor of the Crown of Bohemia and his government in the Vogtlande . Gera 1888. , page 399