Sibylle of Cleves
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| Sibylle of Cleves | |
|---|---|
John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar John Frederick III, Duke of Saxony | |
| House | La Marck |
| Father | John III, Duke of Cleves |
| Mother | Maria of Jülich-Berg |
Sibylle of Cleves (17 January 1512 – 21 February 1554) was electress consort of Saxony.
Born in
Life
In September 1526, Sibylle was betrothed to
After the death of his father in 1532, Johann Friedrich became the elector of Saxony and Sibylle the electress.
The correspondence between Sibylle and her husband during his captivity as a consequence of the
In 1552, after five years of captivity, the deposed elector was finally reunited with his family. However, the reunion was short-lived: in 1554 both Sibylle and Johan Frederick I died within a month of each other. They were buried in the City Church of Weimar.
Like her husband, Sibylle was a staunch supporter of the Reformation. The Thuringian reformer Justus Menius dedicated to her the mirrors for princes writing Oeconomia Christiana.
Issue
- John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (b. Torgau, 8 January 1529 – d. as imperial prisoner at Schloss Steyr, Upper Austria, 19 May 1595).
- John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. Torgau, 11 March 1530 – d. Weimar, 2 March 1573).
- John Ernest (b. Weimar, 5 January 1535 – d. Weimar, 11 January 1535).
- John Frederick III, Duke of Saxony, called the Younger (b. Torgau, 16 January 1538 – d. Jena, 31 October 1565).
Notes
- ^ At the time, the area was in the Duchy of Berg.
References
- Faith and Power: Saxony in Europe during the Reformation period, Dresden 2004, p. 149.
- Joachim Bauer/Dagmar Blaha: The deaths of John Frederick and his wife Sibylle, in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 50 (2004), vol. I, pp. 78–84.
- Carl August Hugo Burkhardt: Letters of Sybille of Jülich-Cleves-Berg to her husband John Frederick the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony, in: Journal of the Berg Historical Society, vol. V, 1868, pp. 1–184.
- Sylvia Weigelt: "The men pleasure and joy to be": women to Luther. Wartburg 2011.
- Heinrich Theodor Flathe: Electress of Saxony, in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). vol. 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 141.
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