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Household of Johann II Albrecht von MECKLENBURG-GUSTROW

(1) He is married to Margaret Elizabeth von MECKLENBURG-GADEBUSCH.

They got married on October 9, 1608 at Mecklenburg, Germany, he was 18 years old.


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(2) He has/had a relationship with Eleonore Marie von ANHALT-BERNBURG.


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(3) He is married to Elizabeth von HESSE-KASSEL.

They got married on March 25, 1618 at Kassel, Hesse-Kassel, Germany, he was 27 years old.


Notes about Johann II Albrecht von MECKLENBURG-GUSTROW

John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (5 May 1590 in Waren - 23 April 1636 in Güstrow) was a Duke of Mecklenburg. From 1608 to 1611, he was the nominal ruler of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; the actual ruler being the regent, his great-uncle Charles I. From 1611 to 1621 John Albert and his brother Adolf Frederick I jointly ruled the whole Duchy of Mecklenburg. From 1621, John Albert ruled Mecklenburg-Güstrow alone.

John Albert was the son of Duke John VII and Sophia of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp.

He reigned from 16 April 1608, under the regency of his great-uncle Duke Charles I, jointly with his brother Adolf Frederick I in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin part of the country. After Charles's death, the Emperor declared Adolf Frederick an adult and he ruled alone until John Albert came of age and they began to rule jointly.

In 1617 he converted to Protestantism. In the division of Mecklenburg of 1621, John Albert received Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

In 1623, both brothers joined a defensive alliance of the Lower Saxon Estates. They tried to seem neutral during the Thirty Years' War, but they secretly supported the Danish troops of king Christian IV. After the Imperial side won the Battle of Lutter, Tilly treated them as enemies. On 19 January 1628, Emperor Ferdinand II issue a decree at Brandýs Castle declaring that the brothers had forfeited their fief and that Mecklenburg would be invested to Wallenstein. In May 1628, the brothers left the Duchy, at the request of Wallenstein. In May 1631, Wallenstein was overthrown by Swedish troops, and the brothers returned.

John Albert II died in 1636 and was buried in the Minster in Güstrow.

Marriage and issue
John Albert II was married three times.

(I) On 9 October 1608 he married Margaret Elizabeth (1584-1616), daughter of Duke Christopher of Mecklenburg. The couple had the following children:

John Christopher (1611-1612)
Elisabeth Sophie (20 August 1613 - 12 July 1676,) married Duke Augustus II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Christine Margaret married firstly on 11 February 1640 Francis Albert of Saxe-Lauenburg, son of Francis II
married secondly, on 6 July 1650 Duke Christian Louis I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (divorced 1663)
Charles Henry (1616-1618)

(II) On 26 March 1618, he married Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel (24 May 1596 - 16 December 1625), daughter of Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel. This marriage remained childless.

(III) He married his third wife, Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg (7 August 1600 - 17 July 1657), daughter of Prince Christian I of Anhalt-Bernburg, on 7 May 1626. The couple had the following children:

Anna Sophie (29 September 29, 1628 - 10 February 1666) married Duke Louis IV of Legnica
John Christian (1629-1631)
Eleanor (1630-1631)
Gustav Adolph (1633-1695)
Louise (20 May 1635 - 6 January 1648)
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Albert_II,_Duke_of_Mecklenburg

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Birthday May 5, 1590

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1590: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice Judaism of his sister and her children.
    • March 14 » Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
    • May 17 » Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
    • September 5 » Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
    • October 16 » Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
    • October 24 » John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.

Day of marriage March 25, 1618

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1618: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 15 » Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
    • May 23 » The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
    • June 14 » Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
    • July 31 » Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
    • September 18 » The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
    • October 29 » English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

Day of death April 23, 1636

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1636: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 26 » Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
    • April 30 » Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
    • October 4 » Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
    • October 28 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
    • December 13 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States.


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