Ursula von Rosenfeld

Ursula von Rosenfeld (* around 1499; † February 26, 1538 ) was the second wife of Margrave Ernst von Baden . Through her son Karl, she is the ancestral mother of all later Grand Dukes of Baden.

Life

Ursula was born around 1499 as the youngest child of the noble Wolf von Rosenfeld († 1500) and his wife Anna Bombast von Hohenheim . Wolf was mayor of the Württemberg city of Rosenfeld . According to local tradition, the family home is the stately "Ursulahaus" from the early 15th century.

As a maid of honor, Ursula belonged to the wife of the Baden Margravine Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach , the first wife of Margrave Ernst. In the Zimmerische Chronik it says: " After he died [the Margravine Elisabeth], marggraf Ernst got a noble von Rosenfeldt, who had been with his husband in the frawenzimmer before, from whom he got many deniers ."

Margravine Elisabeth died on May 31, 1518. Ernst and Ursula were married soon after, probably in the same year. Although it was an improper connection between an imperial prince and a lower noblewoman, it was not a morganatic marriage in the legal sense, because Ursula rose to margravine with the marriage. On her tomb she is appropriately referred to as the “illustrious mistress Ursula, margravine in Baden and Hochberg, wife of the illustrious prince, Herr Ernst, margrave in Baden and Hochberg” (“ILL. DNA VRSV = LA MARCHIONISSA / BADEN ET HOCHBERG ILLVSTRIS PRINCIPIS / DNI ERNESTI MARCHIONIS IN BADEN ET HOCHBERG CONIUNX ”).

Ursula died on February 26, 1538 and was buried in the Pforzheim Castle Church. Ernst commissioned a double tomb in the form of a tumba in her honor , which stands in a prominent position in the center of the choir of the castle church.

progeny

The number and names of the children from her marriage to Ernst von Baden are not fully recorded. The following are certainly attested as descendants:

• Margarete (* 1519; † 1571), married Count Wolfgang II of Oettingen (* 1511; † 1572) on November 12, 1538
• Salome († 1549), married in 1540 to Count Ladislaus von Fraunberg-Haag (1505–1566)
• Charles II (July 24, 1529 - March 23, 1577), Margrave of Baden-Durlach

literature

• Casimir Bumiller: Ursula von Rosenfeld and the tragedy of the House of Baden , Gernsbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-938047-51-4
• Johann Stephan Pütter : Ueber Mißheirathen Teutscher Princes and Counts , Göttingen 1796, pp. 83-91 online in the Google book search
• Christoph Meiners, Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (eds.): Mark-Graf Ernst von Baden and Ursula von Rosenfeld, the ancestral parents of the still flourishing Baden house , in: Göttingisches Historisches Magazin, 4th volume, Hanover 1789, pp. 737–772
• Johann Christian Sachs : Introduction to the history of the Marggravschaft and the Marggravial old princely house of Baden . Fourth part. Lotter, Carlsruhe 1770, p. 65–67 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Otto Konrad Roller : The pedigree of Margravine Ursula von Baden-Durlach and the coat of arms on the sarcophagus in the castle church in Pforzheim . In: Schau-ins-Land, Volume 33 (1906), pp. 35-49 online at Freiburg University Library
• Otto Konrad Roller: The parents of the Margravine Ursula. In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine Volume 58 = NF 19, 1904, p. 155 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Image of the tomb of Ursula von Rosenfeld in: Image archive Photo Marburg - Image index of art and architecture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hansmartin Decker-Hauff, Die Ahnenprobe der Margräfin Ursula von Baden, in: New Yearbook of the Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft "Adler" 1 (1945/46), pp. 113-131.
2. ↑ Rosenfeld district ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Zimmerische Chronik. After the second edition provided by Karl Barack, reissued by Paul Herrmann, Leipzig 1932, vol. 2, p. 198.
4. ↑ Die Kunstdenkmäler Baden, Vol. 9/6: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Pforzheim, Karlsruhe 1939, p. 171 ff.
5. ↑ s. Sach p. 76