Eleonore Charlotte of Saxony-Lauenburg

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Eleonore Charlotte von Sachsen-Lauenburg (born August 8, 1646 in Marienfließ in Pomm. † January 26, 1709 in Franzhagen ) was a princess of Sachsen-Lauenburg and by marriage Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg .

Life

Eleonore Charlotte was the younger of the two daughters of Franz Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1604–1658), who was apanaged with Franzhagen, from his marriage to Marie Juliane (1612–1665), daughter of Count Johann VII von Nassau-Siegen .

On November 1, 1676 she married Duke Christian Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1641–1702). After the death of her older sister Erdmuthe Sophie in 1689, Eleonore Charlotte became heiress of Franzhagen with the associated castle . In 1667 Christian Adolf went bankrupt with his country and King Friedrich III. of Denmark as supreme liege lord moved in the duchy. Eleonore Charlotte traveled to Copenhagen and negotiated personally but unsuccessfully with the king for the return of the territories. Her spouse received an annual grant that helped the couple finance a princely standard of living. After the death of Julius Franz , the last Duke of Saxony-Lauenburg , Eleanor Charlotte, who was not inheritable under current Salian law, unsuccessfully asserted hereditary claims with the emperor.

The family settled on the inheritance belonging to the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg (Castle and Gut Franzhagen) of Eleonore Charlotte and Christian Adolf I. They thus established the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen line . After the death of her husband, Eleonore Charlotte was the owner because her sons had married under her estate and she owned the estate as a Wittum.

progeny

Eleonore Charlotte had the following children from their marriage:

⚭ ( morganatic ) Anna Sophia Segelke (1684– ??)
  • unequal and incapable of inheritance
  • Child (* / † 1679)
  • Ludwig Karl (1684–1708), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen
⚭ 1705 Barbara Dorothea von Winterfeld (1670–1739)
  • unequal but inheritable son Christian Adolf II (1708–1709) for noble estates (Allod)
  • Johann Franz (1685–1687)

literature

  • Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Schwerin: Mecklenburg Year Books , Volume 31–32, 1866
  • Johann Samuelesch: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order. Volume 48, J. f. Gleditsch, 1848, p. 129 f. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ : W. Prisac and history of the German Empire. of the German people from the oldest times to the present , Manz, Regensburg, 1857, p. 672
personal data
SURNAME Eleonore Charlotte of Saxony-Lauenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienfließ
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1709
Place of death Schulendorf