Elisabeth of Hesse (1539–1582)

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Elisabeth of Hesse

Elisabeth of Hesse (born February 13, 1539 in Kassel , † March 15, 1582 in Heidelberg ) was Princess of Hesse and, by marriage, Electress of the Palatinate .

Life

Elisabeth was a daughter of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse (1504–1567) from his marriage to Christine (1505–1549), daughter of Duke Georg of Saxony .

She married Elector Ludwig VI on July 8, 1560 in Marburg . von der Pfalz (1539–1582). The couple resided in Amberg until Ludwig took over government . Even under the influence of his devout Lutheran wife, Ludwig restituted Lutheranism in the Electoral Palatinate.

The constantly ailing Ludwig had in his will, in addition to Duke Ludwig von Württemberg and Margrave Georg Friedrich von Ansbach , also designated his wife Elisabeth and her brother Ludwig as regent for his son Friedrich. But the post as administrator of the Electoral Palatinate claimed Palatine Johann Kasimir von Simmern as agnate of the electoral prince. Together with her co-guardians, Elisabeth tried unsuccessfully at the Imperial Court of Justice against Johann Kasimir. Johann Kasimir was also supported by Elisabeth's brother Wilhelm , who feared his sister's strong Lutheran influence on Friedrich and the politics of the Electoral Palatinate.

Elisabeth, who from 1580 underwent balneological treatments in the brine bath of Offenau because of her " Podagras ", which had previously been medically assessed by Georg Marius , her and her husband's personal physician since 1576, died (at one - as from letters and consultations Marius' of Elisabeth's husband, Elector Ludwig VI. - with a painless discharge of pus and blood from the intestines) a year before her husband and was buried on April 1, 1582 in the Heiliggeistkirche in Heidelberg.

progeny

From their marriage Elisabeth had twelve children, only three of whom reached adulthood:

⚭ 1579 King Charles IX. of Sweden (1550-1611)
  • Elisabeth (* / † 1562)
  • Dorothea Elisabeth (* / † 1565)
  • Dorothea (1566-1568)
  • Friedrich Philipp (* / † 1567)
  • Johann Friedrich (* / † 1569)
  • Ludwig (1570–1571)
  • Catherine (1572–1586)
  • Christine, Countess Palatinate of the Palatinate (1573–1619)
  • Friedrich IV. (1574–1610), Elector Palatinate
⚭ 1593 Princess Luise Juliane of Nassau-Orange (1576–1644)
  • Philipp (* / † 1575)
  • Elisabeth (1576–1577)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Horstius : Offenauer Bades description. 1670.
  2. ^ Rolf Heyers: Dr. Georg Marius, called Mayer von Würzburg (1533-1606). (Dental) medical dissertation Würzburg 1957, p. 73 f. and 85-95.
  3. Exeqviae, that is: Sermon at the begengnus of the most luminous and high-born princess and Frawen, Frawen Elisabeth, Pfaltzgräffin by the Rhine ...: held at Amberg, on Sunday Judica, who was the first Aprilis, this two and eightieth Jars, [et ] c. Printed for Regenspurg, by Johann Burger. MD LXXXII. By M. Martinum Oberndörffer, 31 sheets