Magdalena Sibylla of Neidschutz
Magdalena Sibylla of Neitschuetz (* February 8, 1675, † April 4, 1694 in Dresden) was mistress of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg IV, at whose request they also climb to the Countess of Rochlitz.
Family
Magdalena Sibylla was the daughter of Lieutenant-General Rudolf von Neitschuetz (1627-1703) and his wife Ursula Margarethe von Haug joke ( " the General ", 1650-1713 ), sister of Oberhof Marshal Friedrich Adolf von Haugwitz ( 1637-1705 ). Rudolf von Neitschuetz served as Major and Colonel in 1673 from the kurprinzlichen Guards on horseback, before he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1686.
Since Ursula Margarethe maintained a familiarity with the Elector Johann Georg ( III.) before her marriage and her husband should have been in the spring of 1674 on a Rhine campaign ( and Johann Georg allegedly not ), it was rumored that Magdalena Sibylla an illegitimate daughter of the Elector was. It was thus nurtured, that the child was given the name of the mother and grandmother of the Elector.
Life
Magdalena Sibylla grew up in the environment of the Saxon court, because their parents had or court life preferring life on their estates in Upper Lusatia position and residence in Dresden. It was organized by Princess Anna Sophie (1647-1717) sometimes called as a shareholder in the lock and met so in 1687 the Elector Johann Georg ( IV ), which after returning stayed from the then customary Kavaliersreisen in Dresden and fell in love.
The resulting love relationship was initially suppressed the part of the royal couple with a series of measures, including the entrainment of the prince on the new Rhine campaign (1689, 1691) and the arrangement of a trip to Italy ( 1690) included, as well as the dishonorable discharge of the (at the affair uninvolved ) Rudolf von Neitschuetz.
When Johann George IV came to the throne in 1691, succeeded Magdalena Sibylla as mistress (Johann George IV continued on October 19, 1691 even hand a " Eheverbündnis " on ), and her family in a very short time considerable influence at court to procure. She represented alongside the official wife Eleonore of Saxe- Eisenach and tried to send important items to their environment, or use by third parties in respect to the elector for this.
On February 4, 1693 at the instigation of the Elector, collected by means of bribes in the amount of 40,000 thalers, and 12,000 auxiliary troops for the Emperor Leopold I, the Countess of Rochlitz. In addition, the elector the manor Pillnitz ( 1694 ) and the later Fürstenberg house gave her among other goods and land in Dresden (1692 ).
In the fall of 1693, however, came with her on severe signs of disease which meant that she was bedridden from March 1694, and finally 19 -year-old died on April 4, 1694. Officially, the smallpox considered as cause of death, but no smallpox epidemic in Saxony is said to time according epidemic files listed. She was initially buried in the crypt of the church of St. Sophia.
The Elector Johann Georg IV died a few weeks later.
Posthumous Hexenprozess
Johann Georg's brother and successor, Friedrich August I struggled, ( with views of the public opinion and its finances ) a posthumous witch trial against the family Neitschuetz and their supporters, and had them open the coffin to examine Magdalena Sibylla's mortal remains for signs of witchcraft to leave. Her body was then buried anonymously. Ursula Margaret was ( in the first degree, ie, with bands and thumb screws) and tortured ( to November 1699 for unlawful enrichment ) finally banished to their detention at the fortress Königstein to their estates. The possessions Magdalena Sibylla and Ursula Margarethe were recovered. Accomplices of lower rank were severely tortured and punished.
Progeny
In June 1693 she gave birth to Johann Georg IV in Frankfurt a daughter, Marie Wilhelmine Friederike von Rochlitz ( † 1760 ), which the Elector contractually legitimate and for the British royal couple William III. and Mary II, the baptismal sponsorship took over. She was married in 1721 to Count Piotr Świętosław of Dunin, Castellan to Radom († 1736) and had five children.
Coat of Arms of the Countess of Rochlitz
Magdalena Sibylla received in the survey in the Reichsgräfinnenstand the Emperor an extended coat of arms awarded: the shield is quartered, in fields 1 and 4 Ancestral Arms of the Neitschuetz in box 2 and 3 on gold three black rays (county Rochlitz ). Then as heart shield the Saxon rue wreath crest.