Maria von Jülich

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Maria von Jülich (born August 3, 1491 in Jülich ; † August 29, 1543 ) was the daughter of Duke Wilhelm von Jülich-Berg and Sibylle of Brandenburg .

Life

After the death of her father in 1511, Maria inherited the duchies of Jülich and Berg and the county of Ravensberg . Through her marriage to Johann , the son of Duke Johann II of Kleve , these territories that were brought into the marriage were combined with the Duchy of Kleve-Mark to form the Duchy of Jülich-Kleve-Berg in 1521 .

Maria von Jülich was strong-willed, conservative and evidently a devout Catholic; her confessor was the German Carthusian monk Johannes Justus von Landsberg . She looked very closely at her daughters and influenced them greatly. Their daughters received a traditional upbringing in which a lot of emphasis was placed on embroidery and sewing, but less on learning foreign languages ​​or musical training. Maria's daughter Anna , who married the English King Henry VIII in 1540 , only understood her mother tongue, Low German. According to her later correspondence, Maria apparently did not like allowing her daughter to move to England. Out of love for Anna, she did not want to "endure saying goodbye to her", but her skepticism was perhaps also nourished by religious concerns about the Protestantism that had become native to the British Isles .

progeny

Maria married Duke Johann III in 1510. von Kleve (1490–1539).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alison Weir: Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy . The Bodley Head, London 1999, pp. 154 (English).
  2. ^ Marita A. Panzer: England's queens , Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-7917-1749-9 , p. 48; Antonia Fraser : The six wives of Henry VIII. , Engl. Original edition London 1992, German edition Claassen Verlag, 2nd edition Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-546-00081-1 , p. 331 f.