Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst

Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst
Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst
Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Spouse Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Father Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
Mother Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Born 25 September 1607(1607-09-25)
Zerbst
Died 26 September 1634(1634-09-26) (aged 27)
Hitzacker

Dorothea von Anhalt-Zerbst (25 September 1607, Zerbst – 26 September 1634, Hitzacker) was a member of the House of Askanier and a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Contents

Life

Dorothea was the daughter of Prince Rudolf of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576–1621) from his first marriage to Dorothea Hedwig (1587–1609), daughter of the Duke Henry Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

On 26 October 1623 she married in Zerbst with Duke August the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1579–1666). This was August's second marriage. His first marriage had remained childless, like that of his brother Julius Ernest. With the birth of her sons, Dorothea thus became the ancestress of the "New House of Brunswick", which went extinct in 1873.[1] The family tree of the Duchess, as of 1617, can still be found in the library in Wolfenbüttel.[2]

Offspring

From her marriage with Rudolf, Dorothy had the following children:

  • Henry August (1625–1627)
  • Rudolph August (1627–1704), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
married firstly, in 1650 Countess Christiane Elisabeth of Barby (1634-1681)
married secondly, in 1681 Rosine Elisabeth Menthe (1663-1701)
  • Sibylle Ursula (1629–1671)
married in 1663 Duke Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (1627-1698)
  • Klara Auguste (1632–1700)
married in 1653 Duke Frederick of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (1615-1682)
  • Anton Ulrich (1633–1714), Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
married in 1656 princess Elisabeth Juliane of Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg (1634-1704)

See also

References

  • William Havemann: History of the territories Brunswick and Lüneburg, Dieterich, 1855, p. 712
  • Edward Vehse: history of the courts of the House of Brunswick in Germany and England, Hoffmann und Campe, 1853, p. 164

Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.welfen.de/august.htm
  2. ^ Association for history and archeology of Mecklenburg: Mecklenburg yearbooks, Schwerin, Vol. 20-21, 1855, p. 148

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