Henriette Marie of the Palatinate

Henriette Marie of the Palatinate ( born July 17, 1626 The Hague, † September 18, 1651 in Sárospatak ) was a princess of the Palatinate, titular Countess Palatine of the Rhine and by marriage Countess of Mongatsch.

Life

Henriette Marie was a daughter of the Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596-1632) from his marriage to Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), daughter of King James I of England. The Princess described as versatile initially grew in Leiden, then at her mother's court in The Hague. Later Henriette Marie was given to the court of her aunt, the Electress Elisabeth Charlotte of Brandenburg to Crossen an der Oder.

She married on 4 April 1651 Sárospatak Prince Sigismund Rákóczi ( 1622-1652 ), Count of Mongatsch, a younger son of Prince George I Rákóczi of Transylvania. Marie Henriette had strongly opposed this marriage and invited in numerous letters to her brother for help, where she promised to do everything for her " service to the brothers and sisters " to make and doubted whether this marriage was dynastic project really useful. Henriette is supposed to be at that time been sick with grief and have constantly crying. But finally, the Electress of Brandenburg prevailed, were their main arguments is that the Transylvanian over 200 ministers and 50 courtiers and numerous fortresses Declare he also let his house of silver tableware dine; he was the best match among the Protestant princes.

Henriette Marie died suddenly before the age of 25 just a few months after the wedding, just arrived in Transylvania, having borne no children. On their journey from Krusty Silesia, Poland and Hungary to Transylvania, she was accompanied by the Brandenburg chamberlains Ulrich Wenzel. Her brother, the Elector Karl Ludwig of the Palatinate had been reported in a letter: " The gutte leütt probably have large carefully andt it wolter want Gerren do anything at all goood and I must say that they auff of me to the least of my servant carefully vordragen, which may provide them with all his, I confess that I in the nation, which I always like a barbarian has been described, had so vill sivilite not gesugt when I see them every now bey. "

Henriette Marie was in St. Michael's Church in White Castle, today Alba Julia, buried.