Caterina di Balbiano

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Caterina Paolina Maria di Balbiano (* 1670 in Chieri , † 1719 in Dresden ) was a born Piedmontese noblewoman . The three times married northern Italian acquired international importance as the widow of the secretly wedded Margrave Karl Philipp of Brandenburg († 1695), because she refused to accept the title Madame de , against the will of her half-brother-in-law, the elector of Brandenburg and later king in Prussia, Frederick I Brandebourg (as a widowed margravine ). This only took place in 1707 when she married the Saxon imperial countChristoph August von Wackerbarth .

The story of her secret wedding with the Brandenburg margrave was processed like a novel in the 19th century.

Live and act

The second wedding location La Reggia della Venaria Reale, UNESCO World Heritage since 1997
The coat of arms of Count Wackerbarth-Salmour on the eastern entrance gate to the upper garden of Wackerbarth Castle , which was only erected about ten years after Katharina's death
Coat of arms of the Balbiano, Marchesi di Colcavagno

Born in 1670 in the Palazzo Balbiano di Colcavagno, Caterina di Balbiano from the family of the Marchesi di Colcavagno was the daughter of Gottofredo Alberico di Balbiano, Marchese di Colcavagno, and Marta Maria Benso di Isolabella, a lady-in-waiting to Princess Ludovica Cristina of Savoy . On January 7, 1686 she married Count Giovanni Michele Gabaleone, Conte di Salmour , († February 10, 1691), a Piedmontese dragoon captain, with whom she had three sons. The Count died during the Nine Years War in 1691 during the siege of the Piedmontese city of Cuneo .

After the death of her first husband, the Catholic Countess (Contessa) Caterina Gabaleone di Salmour met the Protestant Prince Karl Philipp von Brandenburg at the ducal court in Turin in 1694 . He secretly married her on May 28 or 29, 1695 in the Reggia di Venaria Reale near Turin, one of the residences of the House of Savoy . Both the House of Brandenburg and the Duke of Savoy did not recognize the marriage. Duke Viktor Amadeus II of Savoy had the newlyweds kidnapped and arrested her in the monastery of St. Croce in Turin to avoid diplomatic entanglements. The Roman Curia supported Karl Philip's claim to the legality of the marriage in the expectation that the marriage to the Catholic would induce the Protestant prince to change his faith. Almost two months later, on July 23, 1695, the Brandenburg nobleman died of a fever. On September 28, 1697, two years after the prince's death, the papal chair determined the validity of the marriage from a Catholic point of view, while the Prussian court still did not recognize it. The Brandenburg Elector offered Katharina 100,000 thalers if she renounced the title Madame de Brandebourg , which she turned down.

The Saxon military and imperial count Christoph August von Wackerbarth got to know Madame de Brandebourg , who was a friend of his, from his commander-in-chief, Prince Eugene of Savoy . They married in 1707. When she married, Katharina gave up the name Brandenburg. Since Wackerbarth had no children, he brought their second-born son from Turin to Dresden and adopted him as Joseph Anton Gabaleon von Wackerbarth-Salmour , which founded the Piedmontese branch of the Wackerbarth family .

Countess Katharina died in Dresden in 1719, at a time when her husband was appointed governor there and had his official and residence in the Gouvernementshaus , the previous building of the Kurländer Palais that burned down in 1728 . She was buried across the Bohemian border in the Mariaschein monastery church.

literature

Fonts

  • Fernanda Torcellan Ginolino:  BALBIANO di Colcavagno, Caterina. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 5:  Bacca-Baratta. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1963.
  • Julius Friedländer: Margrave Karl Philipp von Brandenburg and the Countess Salmour. Reimer, Berlin 1881.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur: The marriage of the Margrave Carl von Brandenburg with the Margravine Catharina von Balbiano. According to documents in d. Royal Archives u. in private archives in Turin. Kern, Breslau 1856, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10013756-3
  • Ruggero Gabaleone di Salmour; Rüdiger Freiherr von Wackerbarth (ed.): Report on Catherine Balbian, Countess von Salmour according to her correspondence and authentic documents. Part 1: From 1670 to 1696. 2004.
  • Caterina di Balbiano, Elisabetta Vianello (eds.): Lettres d'amour et d'affaires: écrites par Catherine, comtesse de Salmour, marquise de Balbian au margrave Charles de Br.Buchet -Chastel, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-283 -02356-3 (reprint of the 1775 edition).
  • Ursula Winter: Lettres de la Comtesse de Salmour écrites au Marggrave de Brandebourg anno 1695 in Turin en Savoye. In: The manuscript directories of the German State Library Berlin. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 978-3-447-03430-2 , p. 63.

Novels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Palazzo di Balbiano Colcavagno. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ Balbiano, Caterina di ( Memento of the original dated August 4, 2013 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. in the personal wiki of SLUB Dresden . Retrieved May 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Personen-wiki.slub-dresden.de
  3. ^ Bernhard von Poten:  Wackerbarth, August Christoph Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 449-451.
  4. ^ Rulers of Brandenburg, Prussia. (See E8.) Retrieved May 30, 2013.
  5. ↑ Uwe Jacobshagen, Michael Pantenius: Wine culture as a way of life. Count Wackerbarth and the Saxon State Winery. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2012, p. 37.
  6. ^ Georg Hiltl: Madame de Brandebourg . In: The Gazebo . Volume 44, 1863, pp. 695-699 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
personal data
SURNAME Balbiano, Caterina di
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balbiano di Colcavagno, Caterina; Balbiano, Caterina Paolina Maria di; Salmour, Catherine de; Salmour, Katharina von; Balbian, Cathérine de; Salmour, Cathérine de; Wackerbarth-Salmour, Katharina von; Brandenburg, Katharina von; Brandebourg, Madame de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Piedmontese-Saxon nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Chieri
DATE OF DEATH 1719
Place of death Dresden