Sabina Catherine of East Frisia

Sabina Catharina von Ostfriesland or Sabina Catharina Cirksenas ( born August 11, 1582 Esen, † May 31, 1618 ) was a Countess of Rietberg.

Life

Sabina Catharina was the eldest child of Enno III. and his first wife Walburga was born in Esen. On October 7, the year she received just there for baptism. In comparison Berumer on January 28, 1600 the legacy of Enno III was. divided among Sabina Catharina and her sister Agnes, because her father wanted to marry again. Sabina Catharina was awarded the county.

Sabina Catharina married in 1601 her uncle John III .. The necessary papal dispensation was granted on April 13, 1600. On 3 March 1601 marriage contract was concluded, the next day the Abbot Leonhard Ruben graduated from Abdinghof in Rietberger chapel wedding ceremony in the Tridentine rite. Even before the wedding, the couple converted to Catholicism and led this back into the county.

1618 laid the foundation stone for the couple Franciscan monastery in Rietberg. 1629 the foundation charter of the monastery was issued.

Sabina Catharina died on May 31, 1618 at the birth of her eleventh child. The coffin was buried in the castle chapel and closed by two Dutch bricklayers. Even after her death Sabina Catharina was revered as a saint. The high altar in the Franciscan monastery in her honor wearing the patronal feast of St. Catherine.

Progeny

Along with Johann III. Sabina Catharina had eleven children: