Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

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Epitaph in the manuscript Memoriae posteritatique inclytae domus Wirtembergicae sacrum from 1583

Elisabeth von Brandenburg-Ansbach (born March 25, 1494 in Ansbach , † May 31, 1518 in Pforzheim ) was a princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and by marriage Margravine of Baden .

Life

Elisabeth was a daughter of Margrave Friedrich the Elder of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth (1460-1536) from his marriage to Sophia of Poland (1464-1512), daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland .

She married Margrave Ernst von Baden (1482–1553) on September 29, 1510 in Pforzheim . Together with his wife, a granddaughter of the powerful Brandenburg Elector Albrecht Achilles , Ernst managed to put pressure on his father to finally depose him in 1515 and share the land with his brothers.

Elisabeth is buried in the collegiate church in Stuttgart . After Elisabeth's death, Ernst entered into two more morganatic marriages in a row.

progeny

Elisabeth had the following children from their marriage:

  • Albrecht (1511–1542)
  • Anna (1512–1579)
⚭ 1537 Count Karl I of Hohenzollern (1516–1576)
⚭ 1561 Count Friedrich II. Von Löwenstein (1528–1569)
⚭ 1577 Count Wolfgang II of Barby (1531–1615)
⚭ 1548 Count Wilhelm von Sulz († around 1566)
  • Elisabeth (1516–1568)
⚭ 1. 1533 Count Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg (1489–1539)
⚭ 2. 1543 Count Conrad II of Castell (1519–1577)

literature

  • Samuel Buchholtz: Attempt of a history of the Churmarck Brandenburg from the first appearance of the German Sennonen up to the present time , FW Birnstiel, 1767, p. 221

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Jon Mathieu: Kinship in Europe: approaches to long-term developments (1300-1900) , Berghahn Books, 2007, p. 94
personal data
SURNAME Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and by marriage Margravine of Baden
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1494
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1518
Place of death Pforzheim