Helene of the Palatinate

Helene von der Pfalz (born February 9, 1493 in Heidelberg , † August 4, 1524 in Schwerin ) from the Wittelsbach family was a Countess Palatine of Simmern and, by marriage, Duchess of Mecklenburg .

Life

Epitaph in the Schwerin Cathedral

Helene was a daughter of Elector Philipp von der Pfalz (1448–1508) from his marriage to Margarete (1456–1501), daughter of Duke Ludwig IX. from Bavaria-Landshut .

She married on June 15, 1513 in Wismar, Duke Heinrich V of Mecklenburg (1479–1552). In order not to overshadow the bride, Ms. Fineke had to be instructed by Greese not to put on her best dress. The supplement was held in a hitherto unknown pomp, in the presence of numerous imperial princes.

Helene was buried in Schwerin Cathedral . Her burial there was the first in the Mecklenburg royal family who had previously used the Doberan monastery church as a burial place. Her epitaph, created by Peter Vischer , erected shortly after her death and attached to the back wall of the altar wall until 1845, is on a pillar on the southern gallery next to the church door.

progeny

Helene had the following children from their marriage:

Philipp (1514–1557), Duke of Mecklenburg
Margaret (1515–1559)

⚭ 1537 Duke Heinrich II of Münsterberg-Oels (1507–1548)

Catherine (1518–1581)

⚭ 1538 Duke Friedrich III. of Liegnitz (1520–1570)

literature

Eduard Vehse: History of the German Courts since the Reformation. Volume 35–36, Hoffmann and Campe, 1856, pp. 62 ff.
Michael Masson: The royal house of Bavaria. Edited genealogically and explained with historical-biographical notes. Ed., 1854, p. 102

Web links

Literature about Helene von der Pfalz in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ Tom Clauss: 775 years Jesendorf , Books on Demand, p. 1698 digitized
↑ Steffen Stuth: Courts and Residences: Studies on the Courts of the Dukes of Mecklenburg in the 16th and 17th Centuries , Edition Temmen, 2001, p. 51
↑ Hauschke, Sven, The Grave Monuments of the Nuremberg Vischer Workshop (1453-1544), Petersberg 2006 (Bronze Bones of the Middle Ages 6), cat. 83, pp. 278-279. Robert Dohme: Art and Artists of the Middle Ages and Modern Times , EA Seemann, 1878, p. 43
^ Archives for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg and Revüe der Landwirtschaft , Volume 14, sn, 1864, p. 272 digitized

personal data
SURNAME	Helene of the Palatinate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Helena of the Palatinate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duchess of Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1493
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH	4th August 1524
Place of death	Schwerin

[1] Tom Clauss: 775 years Jesendorf , Books on Demand, p. 1698 digitized

[2] Steffen Stuth: Courts and Residences: Studies on the Courts of the Dukes of Mecklenburg in the 16th and 17th Centuries , Edition Temmen, 2001, p. 51

[3] Hauschke, Sven, The Grave Monuments of the Nuremberg Vischer Workshop (1453-1544), Petersberg 2006 (Bronze Bones of the Middle Ages 6), cat. 83, pp. 278-279. Robert Dohme: Art and Artists of the Middle Ages and Modern Times , EA Seemann, 1878, p. 43

[4] Archives for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg and Revüe der Landwirtschaft , Volume 14, sn, 1864, p. 272 digitized