Dorothea Maria of Anhalt

Sophie Dorothea Maria of Anhalt ( born July 2, 1574 Dessau, † July 18, 1617 in Weimar) was a askanisch - Anhalt and Princess from 1586 to 1593 the 36th abbess of free secular pin Gernrode and Frose. She left the pen for her marriage to John III. of Saxe- Weimar.

Life

Duchess Dorothea Maria is a daughter of Prince Joachim Ernst von Anhalt and his second wife Eleanor Duchess of Württemberg.

On January 7, 1593 married Duchess Maria Dorothea in Altenburg Duke John III. of Saxe- Weimar. With him she had eleven sons and one daughter:

  • Johann the Younger Ernst of Saxe-Weimar
  • Johann Wilhelm ( stillborn )
  • Friedrich of Saxe- Weimar
  • Johann (March 31, 1597 - October 6, 1604 )
  • William IV of Saxe- Weimar
  • William's twin brother ( stillborn )
  • Albert of Saxe- Eisenach
  • Johann Friedrich of Saxe- Weimar
  • Ernst I of Saxe- Gotha
  • Friedrich Wilhelm of Saxe- Weimar
  • Bernhard of Saxe- Weimar
  • Johanna (April 14, 1606 - July 3, 1609 )

With 43 ​​years of Duchess Dorothea Maria was killed in a riding accident. The funeral for Johann Hermann Schein Trauermotette "I will be silent," composed, took place on August 24, 1617 at Castle Hornstein (later William Castle ) instead. This meeting on the occasion of the funeral ceremonies took her younger brother, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt- Köthen, to start with like the Fruitful Society.

Reception

The memory of the largely forgotten Duchess has (also: The White Woman on the peace stone), at least in Gotha Tell treasure in the tradition of the ancestress of the castle received. According to those on the castle Friedensstein every time the Duke house a disaster or a death was imminent, ascended the spirit of the late Dorothea Mary ( mother of locksmith maker Ernst I of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg ) from the crypt beneath the castle church and wailing through the rooms of the residence changed. However, they could be seen only by those which concerned the coming calamity directly. The royal crypt was, however, so that only established in 1679 and over six decades after the death of the buried in Weimar Duchess.

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