Eleanor of Saxony-Eisenach
Eleonore Erdmuthe L ( o ) uise von Sachsen-Eisenach (born April 13, 1662 in Friedewald ; † September 9, 1696 at Pretzsch Castle in Pretzsch ) was a German princess from the Ernestine Wettin family and was successively married to Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Electress of Saxony .
Life
Eleonore was born as the daughter of Duke Johann Georg I of Saxony-Eisenach and his wife Johannetta von Sayn-Wittgenstein . On November 4, 1681, she married Margrave Johann Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach in Eisenach . She had three children with him before he died of smallpox in 1686 . His successor in Ansbach was a son of Johann Friedrich from his first marriage, and Eleonore and her children were taken to Crailsheim , where they lived in poor conditions.
On the advice of the electoral advisor in Dresden, Hans Adam von Schöning , who was looking for a rapprochement with Brandenburg, the widowed Princess von Ansbach married in agreement with the head of the House of Hohenzollern , Elector Friedrich III. of Brandenburg , on April 17, 1692 in Leipzig the Saxon Elector Johann Georg IV.
This marriage turned out to be extremely unhappy, as Johann Georg IV was not ready to leave his lover Magdalena Sibylla von Neitschütz . According to the (albeit completely unreliable) Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz , fights should have occurred between the couple, culminating in Johann Georg attacking his wife with the sword and his brother having to disarm him to prevent worse. At least the relationship remained extremely hypothermic, overshadowed by suspicions and childless despite two pregnancies.
Johann Georg IV died in 1694 and Eleonore was deported to Pretzsch with her children. After it was suspected that the sons of Johann Friedrich von Ansbach from his first marriage would die without heirs, Eleonore's son Wilhelm Friedrich moved up as Hereditary Prince. The only purpose in life was her daughter Caroline, whom she finally left behind as an orphan in 1696 at the age of 13. The Brandenburg Electress Sophie Charlotte accepted them; later she became Queen of Britain.
progeny
- Wilhelmine Karoline (1683–1737) ∞ (1705) George II, King of Great Britain
- Friedrich August (1685–1685)
- Wilhelm Friedrich (1686–1723), Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
literature
- Heinrich Theodor Flathe: Johann Georg IV. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 384-386. (there Eleanor von Sachsen-Eisenach also biographed)
- M. Spindler, A. Kraus: History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century , Munich 1997. ISBN 3-406-39451-5
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Johann Georg IV. Von Sachsen & Magdalena Sibylla von Neitschütz - A fatal liaison , Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-941757-43-1 .
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Dowager Electress Eleonore Erdmuthe Luise of Saxony in Pretzsch . In: Yearbook of the Düben Heath 2015. Bad Düben 2014. pp. 52–54.
| predecessor | Office | Successor |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Sophie of Denmark and Norway |
Electress of Saxony 1691–1694 |
Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Eleanor of Saxony-Eisenach |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eleonore Erdmuthe Louise of Saxony-Eisenach; Eleonore Erdmuthe Luise of Saxony-Eisenach |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess from the House of Wettin, by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Electress of Saxony |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1662 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedewald |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1696 |
| Place of death | Pretzsch Castle |