Ancestral Trails 2016 » Elizabeth von BRANDENBURG-KUSTRIN (1540-1578)

Personal data Elizabeth von BRANDENBURG-KUSTRIN 


Household of Elizabeth von BRANDENBURG-KUSTRIN

She is married to George Friedrich von BRANDENBURG-ANSBACH.

They got married on December 26, 1558 at Küstrin, Lubusz Voivodeship, Gorzów, Poland, she was 18 years old.

  • The couple has common ancestors.

    • Notes about Elizabeth von BRANDENBURG-KUSTRIN

    Elizabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin (29 August 1540 - 8 March 1578), was a princess of Brandenburg-Küstrin and margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach by marriage.

    Elizabeth was the elder of two daughters of Margrave John of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1513-1571) from his marriage to Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1518-1574), daughter of the Duke Henry V of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

    On 26 December 1558 Elisabeth married Margrave George Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (1539-1603) in Küstrin. From 1577, he acted as governor in the Duchy of Prussia on behalf of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia .

    Elisabeth died during her stay at the Warsaw court, where her husband was to be awarded the ducal title by the Polish king Stefan Batory. Elizabeth was buried in Königsberg Cathedral. Her husband ordered the Dutch sculptor Willem van Bloche to create a grave monument for her. It was completed in 1582 and was erected as a "governor monument" in the Cathedral.
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Birthday August 29, 1540

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1540: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 6 » King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
    • March 23 » Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
    • July 9 » King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
    • July 28 » Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
    • August 15 » Arequipa, Peru is founded.
    • October 18 » Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.

Day of marriage December 26, 1558

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1558: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 7 » French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
    • April 24 » Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
    • July 13 » Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
    • October 17 » Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
    • November 17 » Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.

Day of death March 8, 1578

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1578: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 31 » Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons.
    • April 27 » Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
    • May 31 » King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
    • August 4 » Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
    • September 29 » Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.


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