Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt
Agnes Hedwig von Anhalt ( born March 12, 1573 Dessau, † November 3, 1616 in Sønderborg) Electress of Saxony, later Duchess of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Plön, was the second wife of Elector August of Saxony.
Agnes Hedwig was the daughter of Prince Joachim Ernst von Anhalt and his second wife Eleonore von Württemberg. Even as an eight year old she became abbess in 1581 the imperial abbey of Saint Cyriacus in Gernrode. In 1586 she left the pen again and was on January 3, was not quite 13 years married to the 60 -year-old Prince Elector August. On the wedding night, she should have asked for the release of Peucer Caspar, who was due to the influence of August's first wife, the Danish Princess Anne, has been imprisoned as a Calvinist. Peucer was actually released. The Elector died after a few weeks on 11 February 1586th As a jointure she received Lichtenburg Castle, but where they never lived.
Two years later, on February 14, 1588, she married the 43 -year-old widowed John III. , Duke of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg, the brother of the first wife of her first husband. She brought a dowry of 30,000 rix-dollars into the marriage. Among his fourteen children from his first marriage, several of whom were older than they, and all reached adulthood, she gave birth to nine more children.
- Eleonora (* 1590, † 1669)
- Anna Sabina (* 1593, † 1659) married since 1618 with Duke Julius Friedrich of Württemberg- bored Lingen
- Johann Georg (* 1594, † 1613 )
- Joachim Ernst ( * 1595, † 1671) was Duke of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Plön
- Dorothea Sibylla (* 1597, † 1597)
- Dorothea Maria ( * 1599, † 1600)
- Bernhard ( * 1601, † 1601)
- Eleonora Sophia ( * 1603, † 1675) married since 1625 with Duke Christian II of Anhalt- Bernburg.
- Agnes Magdalena (* 1607, † 1618)
She died in 1616, six years before her husband.