Magdalena of Brandenburg (1582–1616)

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Magdalena of Brandenburg, Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt
Magdalena (age 15)
painting by Andreas Riehl d. J. 1596

Magdalena von Brandenburg (born January 7, 1582 in Berlin ; † May 4, 1616 in Darmstadt ) was a princess of Brandenburg and, by marriage, Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt .

Life

Magdalena from the House of Hohenzollern was a daughter of the Brandenburg Elector Johann Georg (1525–1598) from his marriage to Elisabeth (1563–1607), daughter of Prince Joachim Ernst von Anhalt . Shortly after the death of her father, she quietly married Landgrave Ludwig V of Hessen-Darmstadt (1577–1627) in Berlin on June 5, 1598 , to whom she had become engaged the year before.

Magdalena died shortly after taking part in the Naumburg Princes' Congress in 1616. She was buried in the city ​​church of Darmstadt . The death of his wife hit Ludwig so hard that he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land between 1618 and 1619 , which made him suspect of wanting to convert to Catholicism.

Magdalena left numerous volumes of theological and historical content to the Hessian State Library .

progeny

From her marriage, Magdalena had five sons and seven daughters:

⚭ 1617 Duke Ludwig Friedrich of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (1586–1631)
⚭ 1617 Duke Georg von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1582–1641)
⚭ 1624 Count Palatine Johann Friedrich von Sulzbach (1587–1644)
  • George II (1605–1661), Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
⚭ 1627 Princess Sophie Eleonore of Saxony (1609–1671)
⚭ 1631 Count Ulrich II of East Frisia (1605–1648)
  • Amalie (1607-1627)
  • Johannes (1609–1651), Landgrave of Hesse-Braubach
⚭ 1647 Countess Johanetta von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1626–1701)

literature

  • Christoph von Rommel: History of Hessen. Krieger, 1837, p. 236 ( books.google.com ).
  • Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt: General journal for history. Veit and Comp., 1846, p. 87 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst Daniel Martin Kirchner: The electors and queens on the throne of the Hohenzollern. Wiegandt & Grieben, 1867, p. 61.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samuel Buchholtz: Attempt of a history of the Churmarck Brandenburg from the first appearance of the German Sennonen up to the present time. Vol. 3-4, FW Birnstiel, 1767, p. 489.
  2. ^ Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. Historical Association for Hesse, 1867, p. 522 ( books.google.com ).
  3. ^ State Historical Information System Hesse
personal data
SURNAME Magdalena of Brandenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magdalene of Brandenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1582
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1616
Place of death Darmstadt