Sophie of Winzenburg

Sophie of Winzenburg (* 1105 in Winzenburg in Hannover, † July 6/7 1160 Brandenburg) was the first Margrave of Brandenburg.

In the present state of historical research paternity for Sophie is not yet established. Probably her father was Hermann I of Winzenburg, but it is also possible that she belonged to another noble house, in which the name Sophie occurred.

1125 Sophie Albrecht I was given the founder of the Mark Brandenburg for his wife. In this marriage she gave birth to a dozen offspring, the longest lived of these Bernhard, namely until 1212. Donated to the monastery Leitzkau ever a hoof in waves and Wolmirsleben. 1158 she accompanied her husband to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Her sister was Beatrix II, Abbess of Quedlinburg pin, who died in the same year as herself Sophie of Winzenburg died, according to some sources on March 25, 1160 other sources, on 6/7 July 1160, and was buried in the Church of the pen Ballenstedt.

Seven hundred years after Sophie of Winzenheim Burg's death a bracteate was found near Aschersleben on which it is pictured next to her husband. The figure is stylized, but this applies to all persons pictures of that era. The fact that Albrecht had his wife shape beside him on his coins, is an unusual proof of his love for Sophie.