Rosine Elisabeth Menthe

Rosine Elisabeth Menthe (also: Rosine Elisabeth elements, Rosina Elisabeth Menthin or Menten, born May 17, 1663 Braunschweig, † May 20 1701 in ibid ), also known as Madame Rudolfine, was in morganatic marriage with Duke Rudolf August ( 1627-1704 ), Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and married Prince of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel.

Life

Rosine Elisabeth was the daughter of a barber and surgeon in Brunswick. In 1681, she married the Duke of Brunswick Rudolf August ( 1627-1704 ). Rudolf August was married to his first marriage with the Countess Christiane Elisabeth von Barby (1634-1681), who died on May 2, 1681. Already on 7 June or July 7, 1681, the eighteen- year-old Raisin Elizabeth was married to Duke Rudolf August. At the ceremony in Hedwigsburg near Wolfenbüttel of the Duke 's younger brother Anton Ulrich and Chancellor Philipp Ludwig Probst of Wendhausen were present. As one of the Duke advised to seek Rosine Elisabeth antrauen to the " left hand ," he is said to have replied: "A true love would have a right hand, and his right they should wife be-ing ."

A title of nobility, she received not in the course of their twenty -year marriage, but was simply called " Madame Rudolfine ," said in a letter to the Electress Sophia of Hanover to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dated 18 August 1700th The children of this marriage should, pursuant to an agreement between Duke Rudolf August and his co-ruling brother Anton Ulrich, is not applicable to the peerage, but only get " one of the peerage proper maintenance". However, the marriage remained childless.

For Rosine Elizabeth Duke was in 1695, the water castle in Vechelde at Braunschweig rebuilt by the architect Hermann basket for princely castle Vechelde. Named after " Madame Rudolfine " Madamenweg that leads to Raffturm from Braunschweig's inner city area today, they used and the Duke, to get from Braunschweig palace, the horror courtyard, to the country castle in Vechelde.

Rosine Elisabeth Menthe died in 1701 in the Grey court in Braunschweig.