Ancestral Trails 2016 » Sophie von BRANDENBURG (1568-1622)

Persoonlijke gegevens Sophie von BRANDENBURG 

• Zij is geboren op 6 juni 1568 in Schloss Zechlin, Zechlin, Rheinberg, Rhein-Westphalia, Germany.

  Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (25 april 1582) lag beneden de 16 jaar (13).

  Let op: Was jonger dan 16 jaar (15) toen kind (Christian von SAXONY) werd geboren (23 september 1583).

• Titel: Electress of Saxony, Princess of Brandenburg
• (Ancestry) : House of Hohenzollern.
• Zij is overleden op 7 december 1622 in Schloss Colditz, Colditz, Muldentalkreis, Sachsen, Germany, zij was toen 54 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Johann Georg von BRANDENBURG en Sabina von BRANDENBURG-ANSBACH

Gezin van Sophie von BRANDENBURG

Zij is getrouwd met Christian von SAXONY.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 april 1582 te Dresden, Stadt Dresden, Sachsen, Germany, zij was toen 13 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. August von SAXONY  1589-1615
2. Sophie von SAXONY  1587-1635
3. Christian von SAXONY  1583-1611
4. Johann George von SAXONY  1585-1656 

Notities over Sophie von BRANDENBURG

Sophie of Brandenburg (6 June 1568 - 7 December 1622) was a Princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Electress of Saxony. From 1591 she was the regent of Saxony during the minority of her son Christian II.

Sophie was born at Zechlin castle, Rheinsberg, a daughter of the Elector of Brandenburg John George (1525-1598) by his second marriage with Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1548-1575), daughter of Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

On 25 April 1582 in Dresden, Sophie married Elector Christian I of Saxony (1560-1591). Sophie was 14 years old at her wedding, and after a year she had her first child.

After the death of her husband, who died at the age of only 31, Sophie, together with Duke Frederick William I of Saxe Weimar, became Regent of the Electorate for her eldest son.

Sophie was an orthodox Lutheran, and fought against crypto-Calvinism in Saxony. After Christian I's death in 1591, she had the Calvinist Chancellor Nikolaus Krell, an opponent of Lutheran orthodoxy, imprisoned at the Königstein Fortress, and in 1601 had him executed at the Dresden Neumarkt. In allusion to the pious widow Judith in the Book of Judith, the orthodox Lutherans thereafter celebrated her as "Judith of Saxony".

As a widow, Sophie lived in the so-called "Fraumutterhaus" in Dresden or in Castle Colditz. She had her own gold coins ("Sophie ducats", Sophiendukaten) minted; she also had the old Franciscan church in Dresden again readied for divine service (1599-1610), which after her was called the Sophienkirche. The "Duchess's Garden" (Der Herzogin Garten) also takes its name from Duchess Sophie. She died at Colditz Castle.

By her marriage, Sophie had the following children:

Christian II (b. Dresden, 23 September 1583 - d. Dresden, 23 June 1611), successor of his father as Elector.
John George I (b. Dresden, 5 March 1585 - d. Dresden, 8 October 1656), successor of his brother as Elector.
Anna Sabine (b. Dresden, 25 January 1586 - d. Dresden, 24 March 1586).
Sophie (b. Dresden, 29 April 1587 - d. Stettin, 9 December 1635), married on 26 August 1610 to Duke Francis I of Pomerania.
Elisabeth (b. Dresden, 21 July 1588 - d. Dresden, 4 March 1589).
Augustus (b. Dresden, 7 September 1589 - d. Naumburg, 26 December 1615), married on 1 January 1612 to Elisabeth of Brünswick-Wolfenbüttel. This marriage was childless.
Dorothea (b. Dresden, 7 January 1591 - d. Quedlinburg, 17 November 1617), Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (1610).
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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