Jakobea of Baden
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Jakobea of Baden | |
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Born | 16 January 1558 |
Died | 3 September 1597 Düsseldorf | (aged 39)
Buried | Kreuzherren Church in Düsseldorf |
Noble family | Zähringen |
Spouse(s) | John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg |
Father | Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden |
Mother | Mechthild of Bavaria |
Princess Jakobea of Baden (16 January 1558 – 3 September 1597 in Düsseldorf, buried in the St. Lambert Church in Düsseldorf) was daughter of the Margrave Philibert of Baden-Baden and Mechthild of Bavaria.
Life
Jakobea of Baden-Baden became an orphan at an early age and was raised at the court of her maternal uncle Duke
William the Rich could never overcome the early death of his eldest son
When William died in 1592, John William inherited the duchies and Jakobea tried to rule on behalf of her husband, who had been locked up because of his temper tantrums. She had been born a
She was found dead in her room on the morning of 3 September 1597, after she had received guests and toasted on her husband's health the night before. Eyewitness accounts suggest that she was strangled or suffocated.[3] The motive for the move appears to have been to make room for a more fertile wife, who could save the endangered dynasty.
She was buried on 10 September 1597 in a closed ceremony in the Kreuzherren Church in Düsseldorf. On 23 March 1820, her body was transferred to the St. Lambert Church in Düsseldorf and solemnly reburied.
The City Museum in Düsseldorf has a lock of her hair.
Legacy
Comparing Jakobea to Mary Stuart is not entirely far-fetched; even so, it may be an exaggeration. Jakobea of Baden was overwhelmed by the confusing conditions at the religiously divided court in Düsseldorf and fled in a love affair for some amusement. When she was held in humiliating captivity and lost all hope of help from her powerful relatives in Baden and Bavaria, she showed her true caliber and attitude. The popular misinformation that Jakobea of Baden was beheaded, would make her more similar to Mary Stuart.[citation needed]
Footnotes
- ^ v. Zuccalmaglio: Die Vorzeit der Länder Cleve-Mark, Jülich-Berg und Westphalen, p. 253.
- ^ the only part that was left standing when the castle was demolished after a fire in 1872
- ^ Murder was never proven. However, in view of the facts and the motives and interests of her enemies, it would seem more appropriate to try to prove a natural death. The most import witness statement is available online Archived 2015-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
References
- Johann Baptist von Zahlhas: Jakobe von Baden. Schauspiel., Leske, Darmstadt, 1833, Online at the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
- Mark P. Lindo: Jacoba, Hertogin van Gulik, Kleef en Berg, geboren Markgravin van Baden: (Fragment uit de geschledenis van Gulik, Kleef en Berg), 1847, Online
- Geisenheimer: Jakobe von Baden: Vortr. im Bildungsverein zu Düsseldorf, 13. Nov. 1876, Essen, 1876, Online
- Marlies Döring: Jacobe von Baden. Die weiße Frau im Schlossturm, Sutton Verlag, Erfurt, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-676-4
- ISBN 3-458-31722-8
- Rolf-Achim Mostert: Wirich von Daun Graf zu Falkenstein (1542–1598) – ein Reichsgraf und bergischer Landstand im Spannungsgefüge von Machtpolitik und Konfession, Thesis, Heinrich Hein University, Düsseldorf, 1997
- Wilhelm Muschka: Opfergang einer Frau. Das Lebensbild der Herzogin Jakobe von Jülich-Kleve-Berg geborene Markgräfin von Baden, 1987, ISBN 3-921531-48-9
- Else Rümmler: Jacobe von Badens Schicksal, in: Land im Mittelpunkt der Mächte. Die Herzogtümer Jülich, Kleve, Berg, Exehibition catalogue, Cleves, 1984, ISBN 3-922384-46-3, p. 444ff
- Felix Stieve (1881), "Jakobe, Herzogin von Jülich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 13, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 567–570
- Felix Stieve: Zur Geschichte der Herzogin Jakobe von Jülich, in: ZBGV 13, 1877, p. 1–197.