Euphemia from Oels

Keystone at the former castle in Liebenwerda. The stone shows the coat of arms of the Electorate of Saxony, and probably Electress Euphemia von Oels.

Another keystone is assigned to Offka, here with the course swords

Euphemia von Oels (first name also Ephigenia, Offka, Offigka ; * around 1390; † 1444 ) was by birth Duchess of Oels and through her marriage to Albrecht III. of Saxony-Wittenberg Electress of Saxony-Wittenberg .

Life

Euphemia was born between 1390 and 1405 as the fifth child of Duke Conrad III. Born by Oels and his wife Jutta ( Guta ). She was the sister of Wroclaw Bishop Konrad IV von Oels . On January 14, 1420 she married the Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg, Albrecht III. While hunting in the Lochauer Heide , where she stayed overnight with her husband, a fire suddenly broke out, and Albrecht died as a result. This marriage remained without descendants, as a result of which the line of the Sachsen-Wittenberg Ascanians in the male line became extinct.

As a Wittum , Euphemia moved into Liebenwerda Castle , where she initiated extensive construction work. She also owned Wahrenbrück and other villages, such as Hohenleipisch , Lausitz and Berga bei Schlieben , from which she received taxes and natural deliveries.

On April 15, 1423 she donated an altar to the city of Liebenwerda. On St. Babarentag 1424 she gave the city of Liebenwerda a piece of wood and twelve meadows . In a document dated December 10, 1431, she bequeathed the pastor of Liebenwerda and his brother the right to the village of Kölsa . This document also mentions a Herrmann Schaff as Voigt zu Liebenwerda .

In 1432 Euphemia married Prince Georg I of Anhalt-Zerbst . The daughter Anna von Anhalt, born in 1435, came from this marriage. On October 1, 1433, the altar Exulum (the exile) donated by her was confirmed by Bishop Johann zu Meißen . On August 14, 1434, she enfeoffed the Hundorfe in Liebenwerda with Marxdorf , Schmerkendorf and Co. Euphemia died in 1444.

In 2011, a memorial plaque for the project “FrauenOrte im Land Brandenburg” funded by the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and Family Brandenburg was installed in the Lubwart Tower .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.familytreelegends.com/trees/hageman/27/data/9662
2. ↑ genealogie-mittelalter.de
3. ↑ The history of the village of Berga on a private community homepage ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Christian Schöttgen: Inventarium diplomaticum historiae Saxoniae Superioris. This is a list of their watch customers of the history of Upper Saxony, including keyserliche, Chur and princely donations, privileges, ... documents ... in chronological order from a. 500th to 1741st included. 1747, column 376 ( digitized version )
5. ↑ Hermann Knothe : The knightly family of the Schaff in Meißnischen and in Upper Lusatia. In: New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 44, 1868, pp. 19–26, especially p. 22 ( digitized version )
6. ^ Christian Schöttgen: Inventarium diplomaticum historiae Saxoniae Superioris. This is a list of their watch customers of the history of Upper Saxony, including keyserliche, Chur and princely donations, privileges, ... documents ... in chronological order from a. 500th to 1741st included. 1747, p. 389 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ http://www.familytreelegends.com/trees/hageman/27/data/9525
8. ↑ FrauenOrte: Bad Liebenwerda Euphemia von Oels  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : Euphemia of Olésnica  - collection of images, videos and audio files

predecessor	Office	Successor
Barbara von Liegnitz	Electress of Saxony 1420–1422	Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg