Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy
Princess Henriette Adelheid Maria of Savoy, Electress of Bavaria ( born November 6, 1636 Turin, † June 13, 1676 in Munich) was by marriage Electress of Bavaria.
Life
She lost her father Victor Amadeus I. at the age of one year. Her mother, Duchess Christina of Savoy, was the daughter of the French king Henry IV and sister of his successor Louis XIII.
On December 8, 1650, she was in the Cathedral of Turin solemnly per procurationem with the Bavarian Crown Prince and later Elector Ferdinand Maria married. The place of the absent bridegroom took her brother Charles Emmanuel II.
The marriage ultimately went back to an initiative Cardinal Mazarin, who had proposed the marriage project in a message to the Bavarian envoy, the 1647 at the Spanish court were. However, the Savoyard marriage was not the first choice for both sides. The mother had long been a marriage Henriette Adelaide with the French Crown Prince, later King Louis XIV sought. The Munich court, however, was interested in a bride who speak German as far as possible, and in any case should be Catholic but. Before signing the marriage pact on 14 May 1650 Munich court had sought extensive information about the Duke of Savoy family and sent the spy Ferdinando Egartner under the code name Aloise Rizzi to Turin. Meanwhile, secret reports, which, inter alia, even then legendary beauty Henriette Adelaide confirmed had the Bavarian Elector Maximilian I. prompted to insist on his son's marriage with Henriette Adelheid and not her sister Margherita.
By the death of his father Ferdinand Maria was already a year after the wedding, Elector of Bavaria and Henriette Adelheid so, the bottom of which had never entered Electress of a country. On 16 May 1652 broke up with an entourage of 336 horses and 350 van on towards Munich, where she arrived on 21 June. In Kufstein, the couple met for the first time. As identification Ferdinand handed her a letter from her mother. Took place on June 25, 1652 in Munich marriage again.
Because of the prolonged childlessness she held in 1659 on his entourage at the spa in Bad Heilbrunn. The treatment was successful, and to this day remembers the 1832 so named Adelheid source to the residence of the Electress.
Adelheid was Electress as an important advisor of her husband. She was significantly involved in the building of Nymphenburg Castle and the Theatinerkirche and attracted foreign artists at the Munich court.
Adelheid also exerted a strong influence on Bavarian politics in favor of France, which eventually led to an anti- Habsburg alliance between France and Bavaria. The products designed by her feasts were famous for their magnificence, to the April 9, 1674, a devastating fire destroyed the residence. They rescued in the absence of Ferdinand barefoot and risked their lives to their children. She pulled it to a cold, which led to her death after two years of suffering.
She was buried in a coffin in the royal crypt in the miterbauten of her Theatinerkirche. Also in the crypt to rest her heart and entrails separately in a tin can.
Progeny
- Maria Anna Christina Victoria (* November 28, 1660, † April 20, 1690 ), ∞ March 7, 1680 in Chalons- sur -Marne Louis " le Grand Dauphin " (* November 1, 1661; † April 14, 1711 )
- Maximilian II Emanuel ( born July 11, 1662 † February 26, 1726 ), Elector of Bavaria
- Luise Margarete Antonie (* September 18, 1663, † November 10, 1665 )
- Ludwig Amadeus Victor ( * April 6, 1665, † December 11, 1665 )
- Stillbirth (* / † 1666)
- Cajetan Mary Franz ( * May 2, 1670; † December 7, 1670 )
- Joseph Clemens Cajetan (* December 5, 1671, † November 12, 1723 ), Elector of Cologne
- Violante Beatrix (* January 23, 1673, † May 29 1731 )