Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg
Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg | |
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| Born | 9 April 1604 |
| Died | 26 November 1658 (aged 54) |
| Spouse(s) | Marie Juliane of Nassau-Siegen |
| Issue Detail | Eleanore Charlotte |
| Father | Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg |
| Mother | Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg (born: 9 April 1604; died: 26 November 1658) was a Prince of Saxe-Lauenburg
Life
Francis Henry, was the ninth and youngest son of Duke
Prince of Wolfenbüttel. King Henry IV of France was his godfather. In a contract of inheritance dated 1619, Francis Henry recognized his elder brother Augustus as sovereign, in exchange for an annual appanage of 2500 thaler
.
When King
Frederick William, the Great elector, on 12 December 1653, rewarding Francis Henry's improvements to the estate.[2]
After his mother's death in 1635, he received
Treptow upon Rega, a former nunnery which she had converted into a castle, where Francis Henry and Marie Juliane of Nassau-Siegen (1612–1665) married on 13 December 1637.[3] Their first child was born in Treptow in 1640.[4]
Francis Henry also served Sophia as administrator of the estates pertaining to her dower.[4] Francis Henry and his brother Francis Charles objected the planned succession of their brother Julius Henry as sole ruler of Saxe-Lauenburg. However, when Julius Henry succeeded their late elder half-brother Augustus, deceased in 1656, this dispute was finally resolved.
Later Francis Henry resided at
Low German
: Franz Drögbrod).
Marriage and issue
Francis Henry married on 13 December 1637 in
Treptow upon Rega with Marie Juliane (1612–1665), a daughter of Count John VII of Nassau-Siegen
, with whom he had the following children:
- Catherine Marie (1640–1641)
- Christine Juliane (1642–1644)
- Erdmuthe Sophie (1644–1689), married in 1665 Duke Gustav Rudolph of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1632–1670), son of Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg
- Francis (1645–1645)
- Eleanore Charlotte (1646–1709), married in 1676 Duke Christian Adolph of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen (1641-1702)
- Erdmann (1649–1660)
Francis Henry had two more children born out of wedlock.
Ancestry
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References
- Johann Samuel Ersch: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer Folge, vol. 48, J. F. Gleditsch, 1848, pp. 92 ff (Digitized)
Notes
- ^ Bernd Warlich, "Sachsen-Lauenburg, Franz Heinrich von", on: Der Dreißigjährige Krieg in Selbstzeugnissen, Chroniken und Berichten, retrieved 13 October 2011.
- ^ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack, Nachtrag zu der Kurzen historisch-geographisch-statistischen Beschreibung des königlich-preussischen Herzogthums Vor- und Hinter-Pommern, Stettin: Johann Samuel Leich, 1795, p. 179.
- ^ N.N., "VII. Sophie von Schleswig-Holstein, Witwe Herzog Philipps II. von Pommern, auf dem Schlosse in Treptow an der Rega", in: Baltische Studien (1832 to date), vol. 1, Gesellschaft für Pommersche Geschichte und Alterthumskunde and Historische Kommission für Pommern (eds.), vol. 1: Stettin: Friedrich Heinrich Morin, 1832, pp. 247–259, here pp. 250 and 257.
- ^ a b N.N., "VII. Sophie von Schleswig-Holstein, Witwe Herzog Philipps II. von Pommern, auf dem Schlosse in Treptow an der Rega", in: Baltische Studien (1832 to date), vol. 1, Gesellschaft für Pommersche Geschichte und Alterthumskunde and Historische Kommission für Pommern (eds.), vol. 1: Stettin: Friedrich Heinrich Morin, 1832, pp. 247–259, here p. 257.
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