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Personal data Anna III. van Stolberg-Wernigerode 


Household of Anna III. van Stolberg-Wernigerode

She is married to Magnus I. van Silezië-Oberglogau.

They got married on March 10, 1584, she was 18 years old.


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Notes about Anna III. van Stolberg-Wernigerode

Anna III, also known as Anna of Stolberg (3 April 1565 - 12 May 1601) was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess-Abbess_of_Quedlinburg">Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1584 until her death.

Anna was the daughter of Count http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_of_Stolberg">Henry of Stolberg (1509-1572) and his wife, Elisabeth of Gleichen (died 1578).

Anna III was elected to succeed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_II,_Abbess_of_Quedlinburg">Elisabeth II, Abbess of Quedlinburg. The election of the new princess-abbess was confirmed by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor">Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. She frequently confronted Quedlinburg city council and the city patron, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_I,_Elector_of_Saxony">Christian I, Elector of Saxony, and appealed to the Emperor for support.

Elector Christian I died in 1591 and was succeeded by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_I,_Elector_of_Saxony">Elector Christian II under the regency of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_I,_Duke_of_Saxe-Weimar">Frederick William I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The Princess-Abbess selected http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anne_Margaret_of_Brunswick-Harburg&action=edit&redlink=1">Anne Margaret of Brunswick-Harburg as her coadjutrix but the Duke of Saxe-Weimar refused to consent as he wanted his own sister, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria,_Abbess_of_Quedlinburg">Maria, to succeed Anna III.

Anna III died suddeny aged 36 after a walk. The official cause of her death was stroke. She was succeeded by her enemy's sister.

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Birthday April 3, 1565

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1565: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 26 » Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
    • March 1 » The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
    • June 23 » Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta.
    • July 29 » The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
    • August 28 » Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
    • October 18 » Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.

Day of marriage March 10, 1584

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem I de Zwijger (Prins Willem van Oranje) (Huis van Oranje) was from 1581 till 1584 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1584: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 25 » Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
    • May 16 » Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
    • July 4 » Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island
    • July 10 » William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
    • September 13 » San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

Day of death May 12, 1601

  • 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 1601: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed.
    • August 3 » Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
    • November 18 » Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, an Ottoman provincial governor, routs the Habsburg forces commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.


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