Ancestral Trails 2016 » Christine von SAXONY (1505-1549)

Personal data Christine von SAXONY 


Household of Christine von SAXONY

She is married to Philip von HESSE.

They got married on December 11, 1523 at Kassel, Hesse-Kassel, Germany, she was 17 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Elizabeth von HESSE  1539-1582 
  2. Anna von HESSE  1529-1591 
  3. Christine von HESSE  1543-1604 
  8. Agnes von HESSE  1527-1555 

  • The couple has common ancestors.

    • Notes about Christine von SAXONY

    Christine of Saxony (25 December 1505 - 15 April 1549) was a German noble, landgravine of Hesse. She was the regent of Hesse in 1547-1549.

    She was the daughter of George, Duke of Saxony "the Bearded", Duke of Saxony and Barbara Jagiellon. Her paternal grandparents were Albert, Duke of Saxony and Sidonie of Bohemia. Her maternal grandparents were Casimir IV Jagiellon, king of Poland and Elisabeth of Austria.

    On 11 December 1523 in Kassel, she married Landgrave Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, called "the Magnanimous". They had 10 children. The marriage was arranged to forge an alliance between Hesse and Saxony and was unhappy; Philip claimed to be disgusted by her and only shared her bed by duty.

    Whilst married to Christine, Philip practised bigamy and had another nine children with his other (morganatic) wife, Margarethe von der Saale; in 1540, Christine gave her consent to her husband's bigamy with his lover because of her view upon him as her sovereign. Saale, however, was never seen at court. During Philip's absence and captivity in 1547-49, Christine was regent jointly with her son.

    Children with Philip of Hesse
    Agnes (31 May 1527 - 4 November 1555), married: in Marburg on 9 January 1541 to Maurice, Elector of Saxony; in Weimar on 26 May 1555 to John Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha.
    Anna (26 October 1529 - 10 July 1591), married on 24 February 1544 to Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken.
    William IV of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (24 June 1532 - 25 August 1592).
    Philipp Ludwig (29 June 1534 - 31 August 1535).
    Barbara (8 April 1536 - 8 June 1597), married: in Reichenweier on 10 September 1555 to Duke George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard; in Kassel on 11 November 1568 to Count Daniel of Waldeck.
    Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg (27 May 1537 - 9 October 1604).
    Elisabeth (13 February 1539 - 14 March 1582), married on 8 July 1560 to Louis VI, Elector Palatine.
    Philip II of Hesse-Rheinfels (22 April 1541 - 20 November 1583).
    Christine (29 June 1543 - 13 May 1604), married in Gottorp on 17 December 1564 to Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.
    Georg I of Hesse-Darmstadt, "the Pious" (10 September 1547 - 7 February 1596).
    SOURCE: Wikipedia

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Historical events

Birthday December 25, 1505

Day of marriage December 11, 1523

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1523: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 20 » Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
    • June 6 » Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day.
    • June 9 » The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
    • June 10 » Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
    • July 1 » Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.

Day of death April 15, 1549

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1549: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 29 » The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
    • July 27 » The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
    • August 15 » Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549).
    • August 17 » Battle of Sampford Courtenay: The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in England.
    • November 29 » The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.


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