Luise Juliana of Orange-Nassau

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Princess Louise Juliane of Orange-Nassau

Princess Louise Juliana of Orange-Nassau (born March 31, 1576 in Delft , † March 15, 1644 in Königsberg ) was elector of the Palatinate by marriage.

Life

Luise Juliana with a doll at the age of about six

Louise Juliana was the eldest daughter of Prince Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau (1533–1584) with his third wife, Princess Charlotte of Bourbon-Montpensier (1546–1582), daughter of Duke Ludwig III. and the Countess of Bar-sur-Seine , Jacqueline de Longwy of the Chaussin house . After her father was shot by Balthasar Gérard in Delft in 1584 , she grew up with her sisters with her stepmother Princess Louise de Coligny (1555-1620) in Delft. As the head of one of the most important Protestant families, Louise tried to find influential husbands of this faith for her stepdaughters.

Electress Louise Juliane of the Palatinate
Luise Juliana, ca.1610

On June 23, 1593, Princess Louise Juliana married the first of her sisters in Dillenburg to the Elector Friedrich IV of the Palatinate (1574–1610), son of Elector Ludwig VI. and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse . After the wedding, she went to Heidelberg with her younger sister Emilia Antwerpiana .

After a childhood and youth full of privation, the pious Electress had to get used to a relatively rich court and a fun-loving husband. The marriage was still considered happy and Louise Juliana devoted herself to her family.

After the early death of her husband in 1610, Louise Juliana was appointed as the guardian of her older son, but his main guardian was Duke Johann II of the Pfalz-Zweibrücken . After a year her son was declared of legal age and Louise Juliana sent him to the court of her sister Elisabeth Flandrika in Sedan to complete his education .

When Emperor Matthias died in 1619, the Bohemian estates elected their son, Elector Friedrich V of the Palatinate, as their king on August 24, 1619 . She unsuccessfully advised her son not to accept the royal crown. After the adventure in Bohemia, the electoral family had to flee from the imperial troops from the Palatinate.

Louise Juliane never saw her son again. She initially went to Württemberg with two of her grandchildren, but Duke Johann Friedrich demanded to leave the country for fear of the emperor. She moved to live with her daughter in Berlin at the court of the Brandenburg Elector. In 1638 the whole family moved to Königsberg as a result of the chaos of war . Electress Louise Juliana died there and was buried in Königsberg Cathedral .

progeny

Eight children emerged from their marriage:

  • Louise Juliane (1594-1640)
⚭ 1612 Count Palatine Johann II of Zweibrücken-Veldenz (1584–1635)
  • Katharina Sophie (1595–1626), unmarried
  • Friedrich V (1596–1632), Elector Palatinate and King of Bohemia
⚭ 1613 Princess Elisabeth Stuart (1596–1662)
⚭ 1616 Elector Georg Wilhelm of Brandenburg (1595–1640)
  • Anna Eleonore (1599–1600)
  • Ludwig Wilhelm (* / † 1600)
  • Moritz Christian (1601–1605)
  • Ludwig Philipp (1602–1655)
⚭ 1631 Princess Marie Eleonore von Brandenburg (1607–1675) daughter of Joachim Friedrich (Brandenburg)

literature

  • Karl Kollnig: The Electors of the Palatinate. Self-published, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-929295-04-0 .
  • Uwe Schögl (Red.): Orange. 500 years of portraits of a dynasty from the portrait collection of the Austrian National Library, Vienna and the Dutch Royal Collection The Hague. (Exhibition from February 1 to March 19, 2002, Camineum of the Austrian National Library, Vienna). Austrian National Library u. a., Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-01-000028-6 , pp. 62-64.

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