Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

Elisabeth of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg (* September 24, 1580, † December 21, 1653 in Rügenwalde in Pomerania ) was the last Duchess of Pomerania.

Life

Princess Elizabeth was the daughter of the first marriage of Duke Johann of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg (1545-1622) and Elisabeth of Brunswick- Grubenhagen (1550-1586), whom he married on August 19, 1568 Kolding.

She married in 1615 the Pomeranian Prince Bogusław XIV and then lived in Rügenwalde and in Szczecin. The marriage remained childless. After the death Bogislaw XIV in 1637, she was assigned as dower residence of the Duke's Palace Rügenwalde. It is considered a founder of the legendary Rügenwalder silver altar, for its completion they had seen and was erected by the end of World War II in St. Mary's Church of Rügenwalde. Your appanage, the city had Rügenwalde apply, with whom she frequently quarreled in this context. After she died in Rügenwalde, her body was initially buried in the Castle Church of Rügenwalder castle, also buried in the tomb of King Eric I. Rügenwalder Marienkirche.

She was sister of Sophia of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg, who was married to the Pomeranian duke Philip II since 1607, and sister of Anne of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg, the second wife of Bogislaw XIII. , Later as a widow in the so-called Knight House of Pommern lived.