Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1494–1572)

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Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (born September 11, 1494 in Celle , † April 2, 1572 in Geldern ) was a princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and by marriage Duchess of Geldern .

Life

Elisabeth was a daughter of Duke Heinrich I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1468–1532) from his marriage to Margarete (1469–1528), daughter of Elector Ernst of Saxony .

She married on December 7, 1518 in Celle Karl von Egmond , Duke of Geldern (1467-1538). In the marriage contract, Karl had kept the inheritance of Geldern in Lorraine open. as well as his wife a lifelong annual pension of 4,000 gold guilders and the office and city of Geldern as treasured items. The marriage remained childless and after ten years of marriage, Emperor Charles V compared himself to Karl von Egmond on October 3, 1528 in Gorinchem, in which Karl Geldern and Zutphen ceded to the emperor in the event of his death.

Elisabeth outlived her husband by many years. She retired to her Wittum and lived in Geldern Castle. As a zealous Catholic, she gave the local parish church and the church in Kerken generous gifts of money and goods. The attempt to introduce the Reformation in her Wittum was suppressed by Elisabeth in 1566. The Duchess died in Geldern and was buried under the high altar of the local parish church. A tomb that was planned during her lifetime was not carried out.

literature

  • Wilhelm JJ Böhmer: Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg: the last Duchess of Geldern (1494-1572): according to archival sources , in publications of the Historical Association for Geldern and the surrounding area, sn, 1915
  • Friedrich Nettesheim: History of the city and the office of Geldern , Volume 1, Kühler, 1863, pp. 218, 235 ff.,
  • Johannes Stinner, Karl-Heinz Tekath: Duchy of Geldern , Volume 1, Verlag des Historisches Verein für Geldern and the surrounding area, 2001, p. 63

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Bonn. Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , Volume 52, L. Röhrscheid, 1988, p. 189
  2. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, Woldemar Harless: Archive for the history of the Lower Rhine , Volume 5, Heberle, 1866, p. 27
personal data
SURNAME Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Geldern
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1494
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1572
Place of death Funds