Sibylle of Cleves
Sibylle von Jülich- Kleve - Berg ( born July 17, 1512 Dusseldorf, † February 21, 1554 in Weimar) was by marriage Electress of Saxony.
Life
Sibylle was the eldest daughter of Duke Johann III. of Jülich -Cleves - Berg ( from the house of the Counts of Mark ) and Maria of Jülich- Berg ( 1491-1543 ), the daughter and heiress of Duke William IV of Jülich -Berg.
In September 1526, this was the later Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony engaged in Schloss Burg on the Wupper, where the nuptials took place. In Mainz, after lengthy negotiations was the matrimonial alliance which followed civil usual dynastic expediency, was agreed. The lavish wedding ceremony, which preceded an elaborate wedding procession, took place in early June 1527 held in Torgau.
As the brisk correspondence shows in the time of the captivity of her husband (1547-1552), a consequence of the Smalcald War, the spouse were devoted in intimate love. After five years of captivity in 1552 he came back to freedom. After the reunion the couple had little time together. 1554 both died within a month and were buried in the town church at Weimar.
Like her husband, whom she assisted in his commitment to the Reformation, Sibylle led of Jülich- Kleve -Berg foreign exchange as in Eren ( All in honor no one can deny ), for example, repeatedly placed on the Cranach portrait in the Veste Coburg.
The Thuringian reformer Justus Menius dedicated her princely mirror oeconomia christiana.
Progeny
From the marriage of Sibylle von Jülich- Kleve -Berg with John Frederick I of Saxony, the children came from
- Johann Friedrich II the Middle (1529-1595), Duke of Saxony
- Johann Wilhelm I (1530-1573), Duke of Saxe- Weimar
- Johann Ernst ( * / † 1535)
- Johann Friedrich III. the Younger (1538-1565), Duke of Saxony
Portraits
From Sibylle exist a number of portraits. The Electoral Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach the Elder painted it several times under the name Sibylle of Cleve. In 1526 he placed it represents ( Klassik Stiftung Weimar) as a bride, a later portrait is privately owned and in the Veste Coburg. Only after her death, the Cranach altar in the town church at Weimar was finished, the aged displays it next to her husband. The Art Thief Stéphane Breitwieser stole one of these portraits from a collection of Baden.