Marie Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

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Marie Elisabeth, before 1687

Marie Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (born January 7, 1638 in Braunschweig ; † February 15, 1687 in Coburg ) was the daughter of Duke August the Younger and, through marriage, Duchess of Saxony-Eisenach and then of Saxony-Coburg .

Life

The second child of August the Younger from Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and his third wife Sophie Elisabeth von Mecklenburg grew up in a highly literary court where Justus Georg Schottelius and Sigmund von Birken worked as teachers. All children were active in writing, following the example of their learned parents, although Marie's half-siblings Anton Ulrich and Sibylle Ursula put them in the shade. Her mother encouraged her own and her stepchildren from around 1648 through glamorous family appearances in front of a select audience in the Wolfenbüttel court theater and placed particular emphasis on the ethical and moral duties of the education of princes.

Marie Elisabeth married Adolf Wilhelm von Eisenach (1632–1668) in 1663 at the age of 25 . She had five children with him, four of whom died early shortly after birth. A fifth, born after his death on November 21, 1668, was only three years old; the successor of her first husband fell to his brothers. On July 18, 1676, she married Albrecht von Sachsen-Coburg (1648–1699) in Gotha , with whom she first settled in Saalfeld until the couple moved to Coburg in 1680. His only son with her died in infancy.

She had considerable influence on her second husband, who, like her, was musically educated. In addition to her early literary work, her achievements in her time in Coburg included the promotion of the court theater , which opened there in 1684, and the creation of a lively theater culture based on the model of the parental court in Wolfenbüttel.

progeny

With Duke Adolf Wilhelm of Saxony-Eisenach:

  • Karl August (January 31, 1664 - February 14, 1665)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (February 2, 1665 - May 3, 1665)
  • Adolf Wilhelm (June 26, 1666 - December 11, 1666)
  • Ernst August (August 28, 1667 - February 8, 1668)
  • Wilhelm August (November 30, 1668 - February 23, 1671), Duke of Saxe-Eisenach under the reign of Johann Georg I.

With Duke Albrecht of Saxe-Coburg:

  • Ernst August (September 1, 1677 - August 17, 1678)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Behr, K .: Genealogy of the ruling royal houses in Europe: together with the order of all the popes and an appendix comprising the houses of Capet, Habsburg, Romanow and an overview of the emperors and kings of Italy and Germany . Tauchnitz, 1870 ( https://books.google.at/books?id=kW5WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA145 page 145).
  2. ^ A b Ute Brandes: Study room, poet club, court society. Creativity and the cultural framework of female storytelling in the baroque era. In: Gisela Brinker-Gabler (ed.): German literature by women. Volume 1, Darmstadt / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33118-1 . Pp. 240-245.
personal data
SURNAME Marie Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maria Elisabeth of Saxe-Coburg; Maria Elisabeth of Saxe-Eisenach; Maria Elisabeth of Saxony-Eisenach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Saxe-Eisenach and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1687
Place of death Coburg