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Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg

Field	Value
name	Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
title	Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg
image	Princess Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenberg.jpg
father	Henry Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
mother	Elizabeth of Denmark and Norway
house	House of Welf
spouse	{{plainlist
* {{marriage	August of Saxony	1 January 1612	26 December 1615	end	d.}}
* {{marriage	John Philip of Saxe-Altenburg	25 October 1618	1 April 1639	end	d}}
issue	Elisabeth Sophie, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
birth_date
birth_place	Wolfenbüttel
death_date
death_place	Altenburg

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (23 June 1593 – 25 March 1650) was a German princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel who became a Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg by marriage.

Life

Elisabeth was born in Wolfenbüttel, the daughter of Duke Henry Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1564–1613) from his second marriage with Elizabeth (1573–1625), eldest daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark.

Elisabeth married first on 1 January 1612 in Dresden, to Duke August of Saxony (1589–1615), the administrator of the diocese of Naumburg. August suddenly died at the age of 26, after only three years of marriage.

Elisabeth's second husband was John Philip of Saxe-Altenburg (1597–1639). They married on 25 October 1618 in Altenburg.

Elisabeth died on 25 March 1650 in Altenburg and was buried in the Brethren Church in Altenburg, to which she had donated a beaker. The motto of the Duchess, who was with both an Albertine and an Ernestine, was: All my delight is in God. An oval gold ducats exists, depicting Elisabeth exists, showing her effigy on the obverse and a crowned "E" on the reverse. Elisabeth was a member of the virtuous society under the name the Pious.

Offspring

From her second marriage, Elisabeth had only one daughter:

Elisabeth Sophie (1619–1680), married in 1636 Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha (1601–1675)

References

New Journal for the History of the Germanic peoples, Volume 1, Issue 1–4, Anton, 1832, p. 88 digitized
Ute like to eat:princesses at the Saxon court, Leipzig University Press, 2007, p. 128
Moritz Theodor Frommelt: Sachsen-Altenburg geography or history, Klinkhardt, 1838, p. 129

Footnotes

References

C. E. von Malortie: ''contributions to the history of Brunswick-Lüneburg house and yard'', Volume 2, Han'sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1864, p. 154
Theodore O. Weigel, Gustav Eduard Köhler: ''album of autographs for two hundred years celebration on 24 October 1848 of the Peace Treaty of Westphalia on 24 October 1648'', T. O. Weigel, 1849, p. 9
Max Lbe. ''Mottos: devices and aphorisms'', Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009, p. 210
Erika Alma Metzger, Richard E. Schade, ''Language societies, gallant female poets'', Rodopi, 1989, p. 617

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