Elisabeth of Saxony
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Elisabeth of Saxony | |
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August, Elector of Saxony | |
| Mother | Anna of Denmark |
Elisabeth of Saxony (18 October 1552, at
Countess Palatine of Simmern by marriage to John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern
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Life
Elisabeth was a daughter of the Elector
August of Saxony (1526–1586) from his marriage to Anna (1532–1585), daughter of King Christian III of Denmark
.
She married on 4 June 1570 in Heidelberg during the
Protestant
front.
The Calvinist Johann Casimir tried to break the religious opposition of his Lutheran wife. In October 1585, she was arrested and accused of adultery and a murder plot against her husband. Even her brother, Elector Christian I, was convinced of her guilt. She converted to Calvinism while in captivity, and died shortly afterwards.
Marriage and issue
From her marriage with John Casimir, Elizabeth had the following children:
- Unnamed son (1573)
- Marie (1576–1577)
- Elisabeth (1578–1580)
- Dorothea (1581–1631), married in 1595 Prince John George I of Anhalt-Dessau (1598–1618)
- Unnamed daughter (1584)
- Unnamed daughter (1585)
Ancestors
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Royal descendants
- The current reigning monarchs Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, King Albert II of Belgium and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourgare all her direct-line descendants.
References
- August von Kluckhohn (1877), "Elisabeth (Pfalzgräfin bei Rhein)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 6, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 7–8
- Friedrich von Bezold (1881), "Johann Casimir, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 14, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 307–314
- Karl von Weber: Archiv für die sächsische Geschichte, p. 215
- Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Die letzten Jahre der Pfalzgräfin Elisabeth, Proceedings of the III Cl., 1873, 1879
- Böttcher, Hans-Joachim (2018). Elisabeth von Sachsen und Johann Kasimir von der Pfalz: Ein Ehe- und Religionskonflikt [Elisabeth of Saxony and John Casimir of the Palatinate: A Marital and Religious Conflict] (in German). Dresden: Dresdner Buchverlag. ISBN 9783946906063.
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