Ernestine Theodora von Pfalz-Sulzbach

Ernestine Elisabeth Johanna von Pfalz-Sulzbach in the ancestral hall of the Fürstin-Franziska-Christine-Stiftung Essen

Ernestine Theodora von Pfalz-Sulzbach (born May 15, 1697 in Sulzbach ; † April 14, 1775 in Neuburg an der Donau ) was the wife of Landgrave Wilhelm the Younger of Hesse-Wanfried and, after his death, prioress of the Carmelite Convent in Neuburg a. d. D. as sister Augusta.

Life

Grave of the Duchess in the Neuburg Court Church

She was the third daughter of Duke Theodor Eustach von Pfalz-Sulzbach and his wife Maria Eleonora Amalie, Countess of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rothenburg. The dukes of Pfalz-Sulzbach were a Palatine branch line of the Wittelsbach family .

Ernestine was brought up together with her older sister Franziska Christine von Pfalz-Sulzbach in the Essen monastery . Charles VI arranged the wedding with 48-year-old Wilhelm the Younger from Hessen-Wanfried. The marriage took place on September 19, 1719. The marriage remained childless. After the death of her husband in 1731, the widow initially lived at Rheinfels Castle, later she joined the Carmel of Neuburg an der Donau and finally became prioress of the monastery, where she received the religious name Augusta. According to Torsy-Kracht, "she was a role model for her fellow sisters in obedience, humility and love for poverty" . She died as the prioress of the convent in the name of holiness. Their bones were transferred to the Neuburg Court Church .

The older sister Maria Anna Amalia Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1693–1762) had lived as a Discalced Carmelite since 1714 in the Cologne monastery of St. Maria in the Kupfergasse . She also died in a reputation for holiness.

literature

Ekkart Sauser : Ernestine. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 310-311. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Reinhold Strauss: Chronicle of Wanfried. Braun, Wanfried 1908.
Jakob Torsy, Hans-Joachim Kracht : The big name day calendar. 3850 names and 1680 biographies of the name cartridge. Revised, supplemented and edited by Hans-Joachim Kracht. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2002, ISBN 3-451-27308-X (with CD-ROM).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Vogl: "Christ vita mea, mors lucrum" - A picture of the life of the Countess Palatine Eleonora Philippina von Sulzbach (1712–1759). In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. Vol. 148, 2008, ISSN 0342-2518 , pp. 99–151, here p. 112, ( detail scan ).

personal data
SURNAME	Pfalz-Sulzbach, Ernestine Theodora von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prioress of the Carmelite monastery in Neuburg
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sulzbach
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1775
Place of death	Neuburg on the Danube

[1] Wolfgang Vogl: "Christ vita mea, mors lucrum" - A picture of the life of the Countess Palatine Eleonora Philippina von Sulzbach (1712–1759). In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. Vol. 148, 2008, ISSN 0342-2518 , pp. 99–151, here p. 112, ( detail scan ).