Raisin Elisabeth Menthe

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Raisin Elisabeth Menthe, 1686
Rudolf August von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Historical map (1st half of the 18th century) with the French name: "Chemin de Madame la Duchesse", "Duchess's path".

Rosine Elisabeth Menthe , also: Rosine Elisabeth Mente, Rosina Elisabeth Menthin or Menten (* May 17, 1663 in Braunschweig ; †  May 20, 1701 ibid), also called Madame Rudolfine , was in a morganatic marriage with Duke Rudolf August (1627–1704) , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel married.

Life

Rosine Elisabeth was born in Minden as the daughter of the barber and surgeon Franz Joachim Menthe. As a young girl she moved to Braunschweig to live with her sister Anna Dorothea, who was married to Johann Peter Lautensack. This was the princely valet of Duke Rudolf August. Menthe took up a position as chambermaid of Duchess Christiane Elisabeth (1634–1681) around 1680 . The Duchess died on May 2nd, 1681. Already on June 7th or July 7th, 1681, the eighteen year old Rosin Elisabeth was married to Duke Rudolf August. The Duke's younger brother Anton Ulrich and Chancellor Philipp Ludwig Probst von Wendhausen were present at the wedding in Hedwigsburg near Wolfenbüttel . When the duke was advised to have raisin Elisabeth entrusted to his “left hand”, he is said to have replied: “A right love wants to have a right hand too, and should she be his right wife”.

She did not receive a title of nobility in the course of her twenty-year marriage, but was simply called "Madame Rudolfine", as was the case in a letter from Electress Sophie von Hannover to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on August 18, 1700. The children of this marriage should also, according to a contract between Duke Rudolf August and his co-ruling brother Anton Ulrich, were not raised to the nobility, but only received “maintenance commensurate with the nobility”. However, the marriage remained childless.

In 1695, the Duke had the water castle in Vechelde near Braunschweig converted into a princely country castle Vechelde for Rosine Elisabeth by the builder Hermann Korb . She and the Duke used the Madamenweg , named after “Madame Rudolfine” , which still leads from the Braunschweig inner city area to the Repturm tower , to get from Braunschweig Castle, the Grauen Hof , to the country castle in Vechelde.

Rosine Elisabeth Menthe died in 1701 in the Gray Court in Braunschweig and was buried in the Braunschweig Cathedral .

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  1. a b c or in Minden according to Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 495 .
  2. ^ A b Paul ZimmermannRudolf August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 525-529.
  3. Karl Eduard Vehse : History of the courts of the House of Braunschweig, 5th part, The court holdings in Hanover, London and Braunschweig . Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1853, p. 169.
  4. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Sciences in Göttingen (ed.): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, all writings and letters . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 190.
  5. Uwe Flake: Westward through fields, forests and meadows . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of July 3, 2003.