Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Sophie of Brunswick- Lüneburg ( born October 30, 1563 Celle, † January 14, 1639 in Nuremberg) was from the House of Brunswick -Lüneburg and was by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg -Ansbach and Brandenburg- Kulmbach and Duchess of Hunters Village.

Life

Sophie was the eldest child of Duke William of Brunswick- Lüneburg (1535-1592) from his marriage to Dorothea (1549-1614), daughter of King Christian III. of Denmark.

She married on 3 May 1579 Dresden Margrave Georg Friedrich I of Brandenburg -Ansbach - Kulmbach ( 1539-1603 ). Georg Friedrich was the last of the elder branch of the Franconian Hohenzollern and Margrave of Ansbach and Kulmbach margraviates, Silesian Duke of Jägerndorf ( Krnov ) and guardianship administrator of the Duchy of Prussia, a powerful figure of his time. His first wife Elisabeth of Brandenburg- Kuestrin was passed in 1578 and like his first, was also Georg Friedrich's second marriage to Sophie childless, so his legacy had to be regulated by the Gera house contract. Sophie's childlessness motivated her husband to increased policy in the interests of its total House of Hohenzollern.

Instead of an own child, she took her youngest 1587, then only five years old sister Sibyl with him on. Your last big trip with her husband led in September 1599 after Heldburg and Coburg nuptials of her sister Margaret with Duke Johann Casimir of Saxe- Coburg. Sophie, who in 1603 returned to her birth family after the death of her husband again, survived her husband by 36 years. Sophie stayed with her sisters, Countess Clara von Schwarzburg and Duchess Sibylle von Braunschweig -Dannenberg often in Nuremberg, where she also died. She was buried in Nuremberg Lorenz Church.

The Renaissance portal of the Hohenzollern castle Wülzburg shows the coat of arms of Georg Friedrich next to his wife Sophie.