Dorothea Susanne of the Palatinate

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dorothea Susanna of the Palatinate (born November 15, 1544 in Simmern , † April 8, 1592 in Weimar ) was a princess of the Palatinate and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar .

Duchess Dorothea Susanna of Saxony-Weimar, b. Princess of the Palatinate (Christoph Leutloff 1575)

Life

Dorothea Susanna was a daughter of Elector Friedrich III. von der Pfalz (1515–1576) from his marriage to Marie (1519–1567), daughter of Margrave Casimir von Brandenburg-Kulmbach .

The Red Castle in Weimar, the widow's seat built for Dorothea Susanne from 1574 to 1576

She married Duke Johann Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar (1530–1573) in Heidelberg on June 15, 1560 . After the marriage, the couple resided mostly in Weimar. After the death of her husband, Elector August von Sachsen was appointed guardian of their children in order to remove the children from their mother's political, but above all religious, influence. The widow was also given a new place of residence outside Weimar, the so-called “New House”. Later the Red Castle in Weimar became her widow's seat, which was built for her between 1574 and 1576 and on whose Renaissance portal an alliance coat of arms of Dorothea Susanne and her husband is attached. The widowed duchess wrote to her brothers Ludwig and Johann Kasimir in 1581 to promote the marriage of her eldest son to a Württemberg princess with the guardian of their eldest son, Elector August in Dresden.

Dorothea Susanna was buried in the city ​​church of St. Peter and Paul in Weimar; their motto was I know that my Savior lives

progeny

Dorothea Susanna had the following children from their marriage:

⚭ 1. 1583 Princess Sophie of Württemberg (1563–1590)
⚭ 2. 1591 Countess Palatine Anna Maria von Neuburg (1575–1643)
  • Sibylla Maria (1563–1569)
  • Johann III. (1570–1605), Duke of Saxe-Weimar
⚭ 1593 Princess Dorothea Maria von Anhalt (1574–1617)

See also

literature

  • Irene Dingel: Dorothea Susanna von Sachsen – Weimar (1544–1592) in the field of tension between denomination and politics. Ernestine and Albertine Saxony in the struggle between faith and power, in: Faith and power. Theology, Politics and Art in the Century of the Reformation, ed. v. Enno Bünz, Stefan Rhein and Günther Wartenberg, Leipzig 2005, pp. 175–192.
  • Daniel Gehren: Ernestine denominational politics. Confession formation, rule consolidation and dynastic identity establishment from the Augsburg Interim 1548 to the Concord Formula 1577, Leipzig 2011, pp. 436-525.
  • Daniel Gehre: Dorothea Susanna Duchess of Saxony-Weimar. Confessing and condemning princess in the dispute over Luther's legacy. In: 500 Years of Reformation: Designed by Women, ed. by Evangelical Women in Germany eV, URL: http://www.frauen-und-reformation.de/?s=bio&id=83 (as of April 11, 2014)
  • Christoph Gottlob Heinrich: Saxon History , Volume 2, Weidmann, 1782, p. 146 f.
  • Daniel Gehre and Vera von der Osten-Sacken (eds.): Princesses and Confession. Contributions of noble women to religious politics and creed formation, Göttingen 2015. With essays by the same, Hendrikje Carius and Ernst Koch on Dorothea Susanna.

Web links

Commons : Dorothea Susanne von der Pfalz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Museums in Berlin: Restored Works of Art in the German Democratic Republic , Association of Visual Artists of the GDR, 1979, p. 180
  2. ↑ http://www.welt-der-wappen.de/Heraldik/Galerien/galerie1101.htm
  3. ^ Anne-Simone Knöfel: Dynasty and Prestige: The marriage policy of the Wettins , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2009, p. 438 f.
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.royaltyguide.nl
  5. ↑ Max Löbe: motto, motto and sayings of German princely families of the XVI. and XVII. Century. Barth, Leipzig 1883, p. 172  in the German Digital Library
personal data
SURNAME Dorothea Susanne of the Palatinate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorothea Susanna from the Palatinate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmern / Hunsrück
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1592
Place of death Weimar