Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg (1512–1554)
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Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg (born July 17, 1512 in Düsseldorf , † February 21, 1554 in Weimar ) was Electress of Saxony by marriage.
Life
Sibylle was the eldest daughter of Duke Johann III. von Jülich-Kleve-Berg (from the house of the Counts of Mark ) and Maria (1491–1543), the heir to Duke Wilhelm IV of Jülich-Berg .
In September 1526 she was betrothed to the future Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony in Castle Burg an der Wupper, where the supplement was also held. In Mainz , after lengthy negotiations, the marriage union, which followed customary dynastic reasoning, was agreed. The splendid wedding ceremony took place in Torgau at the beginning of June 1527 , preceded by an elaborate bridal procession.
As the lively correspondence during the time of her husband's imprisonment (1547–1552), a consequence of the Schmalkaldic War, shows, the spouses were fond of each other. After five years of imprisonment, he was released again in 1552. After the reunion, the couple had little time together. In 1554 both died within a month and were buried in the city church in Weimar .
Like her husband, whom she supported in his work for the Reformation , Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg carried the motto Als in Eren (Nobody can refuse everything in honor), for example shown several times on the Cranach portrait in the Veste Coburg .
The Thuringian reformer Justus Menius dedicated the Fürstenspiegel Oeconomia christiana to her .
progeny
The children came from the marriage of Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg with Johann Friedrich I of Saxony
- Johann Friedrich II. The Middle (1529–1595), Duke of Saxony
- ⚭ 1. 1555 Princess Agnes of Hesse (1527–1555)
- ⚭ 2. 1558 Countess Palatine Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1540–1594)
- Johann Wilhelm I (1530–1573), Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- ⚭ 1560 Countess Palatine Dorothea Susanne von Pfalz-Simmern (1544–1592)
- Johann Ernst (* / † 1535)
- Johann Friedrich III. the Younger (1538–1565), Duke of Saxony
Portraits
There are a number of portraits of Sibylle. The Electoral Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach the Elder painted it several times under the name of Sibylle von Cleve . In 1526 he portrayed her as a bride ( Klassik Stiftung Weimar ), a later portrait is in private ownership and in the Veste Coburg . Only after her death was the Cranach altar in the city church in Weimar completed, which shows her aged next to her husband. The art thief Stéphane Breitwieser stole one of these portraits from a Baden collection.
literature
- Sylvia Weigelt: Sibylle von Kleve - Cranach's beautiful model. Wartburg Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-86160-254-5
- Belief and power. Saxony in Europe during the Reformation. Catalog for the 2nd Saxon State Exhibition. Dresden 2004, p. 149f. and more often, ISBN 3-937602-09-7
- Joachim Bauer / Dagmar Blaha: From the death of Johann Friedrich and his wife Sibylle, in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 50 (2004), no . 1, pp. 78–84 (with reference to the print Ein klagschrift, from the death of the […] princess , Sybilla […] , 1554).
- Carl August Hugo Burkhardt : Letters from Duchess Sybilla von Jülich-Cleve-Berg to her husband Johann Friedrich the Generous, Elector of Saxony. in: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Volume 5, 1868, pp. 1–184
- Sylvia Weigelt: "To be the pleasure and joy of men" Women around Luther. Wartburg Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86160-241-5
- Heinrich Theodor Flathe : Sibylle, Electress of Saxony . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 141.
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| predecessor | Office | Successor |
|---|---|---|
| Elisabeth of Bavaria |
Electress of Saxony 1532–1547 |
Agnes of Hesse |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jülich-Kleve-Berg, Sibylle von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | eldest daughter of Duke Johann III, Electress of Saxony |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1512 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1554 |
| Place of death | Weimar |