Henriette Marie of the Palatinate

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Princess Henriette Marie of the Palatinate

Henriette Marie von der Pfalz (* July 17, 1626 in The Hague ; † September 18, 1651 in Sárospatak ) was a princess of the Palatinate , titular Countess Palatine near the Rhine and by marriage Countess of Mongatsch.

Life

Henriette Marie was a daughter of Elector Friedrich V of the Palatinate (1596–1632) from his marriage to Elisabeth Stuart (1596–1662), daughter of King James I of England . The princess, described as multi-talented, grew up first in Leiden, then at her mother's court in The Hague. Henriette Marie was later given to the court of her aunt, Electress Elisabeth Charlotte of Brandenburg in Crossen an der Oder .

She married Prince Sigismund Rákóczi (1622-1652), Count of Mongatsch (Munkatsch), a younger son of Prince Georg I. Rákóczi of Transylvania on June 26, 1651 in Sárospatak . Henriette Marie had fiercely resisted this marriage and asked for help in numerous letters to her brother, where she promised to do everything to do her "service to the siblings" and doubted whether this marriage project was really dynastically expedient. Henriette is said to have been "sick with grief" and cried all the time. But finally the Brandenburg Electress prevailed, whose main arguments were that the Transylvanian had 200 servants and 50 courtiers as well as numerous fortresses, and he also had his entire house fed on silver dishes; He is the best match among the evangelical princes.

Henriette Marie died suddenly, only 25 years old, only a few months after the wedding and had just arrived in Transylvania without having given birth to children. On her journey from Krossen via Silesia, Poland and Hungary to Transylvania, she was accompanied by the Brandenburg Chamberlain Ulrich Wenzel. She had reported to her brother, the Elector Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz in a letter: “ The good leütt are very worried and want to do everything well and I have to say that they of me except for the least of my servants ensure that you may be provided with everything, I confess that I am with the nation, which has always been described as a barbarian, so vill sivilite had not sucked when I see you here. "

Henriette Marie was buried in the Michaelskirche in Weißenburg .

literature

  • Claudia Opitz : Court society and civilization process. Norbert Elias' work from a cultural studies perspective. Böhlau, Cologne 2005, p. 214 ff.
  • Marita A. Panzer: Wittelsbach women. Princely daughters of a European dynasty. Pustet, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2419-5 , pp. 84, 98-100.
  • Anna Wendland: The marriage of Princess Henriette Marie of the Palatinate with Prince Sigmund Rákoczy of Transylvania. A contribution to the history of the dynasty Pfalz-Simmern. In: New Heidelberg Yearbooks. Volume 14, 1906, pp. 241-278.
  • Martina Trauschke (ed.): Memoirs of the Electress Sophie of Hanover. A courtly picture of life from the 17th century . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Linda Maria Koldau : Women-Music-Culture. A manual on the German-speaking area of ​​the early modern period . Böhlau, Cologne 2005, p. 208.
  2. ^ Sophie Ruppel: Confederate Rivals. Sibling relationships in the high nobility of the 17th century. Böhlau, Cologne 2006, p. 354.
  3. ↑ Johann C. Schneider: Chronicle of the town and state rule of forest before and after the union with the state rule of Pförten . Guben 1846, p. 128.
  4. ↑ Civilité
  5. ^ Dorothea Nolde , Claudia Opitz : Cross-border family relationships. Actors and Media of Cultural Transfer in the Early Modern Era . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2008, p. 217.
personal data
SURNAME Henriette Marie of the Palatinate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henriette Marie von Pfalz-Simmern
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Mongach
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1626
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1651
Place of death Sárospatak