Eleonore Dorothea of ​​Anhalt-Dessau

Eleonore Dorothea von Anhalt-Dessau (born February 16, 1602 in Dessau , † December 26, 1664 in Weimar ) was a princess of Anhalt-Dessau and by marriage Duchess of Saxony-Weimar .

Life

Eleonore Dorothea was a daughter of Prince Johann Georg I of Anhalt-Dessau (1567-1618) from his second marriage to Dorothea (1581-1631), daughter of Count Palatine Johann Casimir von Simmern .

Coffin Eleonore Dorothea next to her husband Wilhelm (front left) in the princely crypt

She married her cousin, Duke Wilhelm the Great of Saxony-Weimar (1598–1662), on May 23, 1625 in Weimar , to whom she had already got engaged before his campaign in Lower Saxony. The alliance, made for political reasons, which was intended to further deepen the friendly relations between Weimar and Anhalt, was described as very happy. Eleonore Dorothea remained true to her Reformed faith in the course of her marriage , even though she also approached her husband's Lutheran religion by abandoning the doctrine of the choice of grace and adopting the Lutheran doctrine of the sacraments. The Duchess was initially buried in the chapel of the Weimar City Palace, but was moved to the new Weimar Princely Crypt in 1824 .

progeny

Eleonore Dorothea had the following children from their marriage:

• Wilhelm (* / † 1626)
• Johann Ernst II (1627–1683), Duke of Saxe-Weimar

⚭ 1656 Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1638–1679)

• Johann Wilhelm (1630–1639)
• Adolf Wilhelm (1632–1668), Duke of Saxony-Eisenach

⚭ 1663 Princess Maria Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1638–1687)

• Johann Georg I (1634–1686), Duke of Saxony-Marksuhl and later of Saxony-Eisenach

⚭ 1661 Countess Johanetta von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1626–1701)

• Wilhelmine Eleonore (1636–1653)
• Bernhard (1638–1678), Duke of Saxony-Jena

⚭ 1662 Princess Marie Charlotte de La Trémoille (1632–1682)

• Friedrich (1640–1656)
• Dorothea Maria (1641–1675)

⚭ 1656 Duke Moritz of Saxony-Zeitz (1619–1681)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology , Volume 2, p. 6, Jena, 1855
2. ↑ Erika Alma Metzger, Richard E. Schade: Linguistic Societies , Galante Poetinnen , p. 553, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1989
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German Courts since the Reformation , Volume 28, P. 32, Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg, 1854