Ursula of Rosenfeld

Ursula von Rosenfeld (c. 1499; † February 26, 1538 ) was the second wife of Margrave Ernst of Baden. It is about their son Karl ancestress of all subsequent Baden's Grand Dukes.

Life

Ursula came around in 1499, the youngest child of the noble wolf down by Rosenfeld († 1500) and his wife Anna bombast of Hohenheim world. Wolf was mayor of Württemberg town of Rosenfeld. As home of the family is the local tradition after the stately " Ursula house" from the early 15th century.

Ursula was a maid of honor to the wife of the Baden room Margravine Elisabeth von Brandenburg -Ansbach - Kulmbach, the first wife of Margrave Ernst. In the Zimmerischen Chronicle states: " selligen die after irem [ Margravine Elisabeth ] has marggraf Ernst, a noble of Rosenfeldt, so with his consort in frawenzimmer previously been vermehelt get by dero he vil heralds. "

Margravine Elisabeth died on 31 May 1518th The marriage between Ernst and Ursula was soon after, probably closed in the same year. Although it was a unstandesgemäße connection between an imperial prince and a low nobles, it was not a morganatic marriage in the legal sense, because Ursula rose to the marriage to the Countess. On her tomb it is accordingly referred to as " illustrious mistress Ursula, Margravine of Baden and Hochberg, wife of the illustrious princes, Mr. Ernst, Margrave of Baden and Hochberg " ( " ILL. DNA VRSV = LA MARCHIONISSA / BADEN ET HOCHBERG ILLVSTRIS principis / DNI ernesti MARCHIONIS IN BADEN ET HOCHBERG CONIUNX ").

Ursula died on February 26, 1538 and was buried in the Castle Church Pforzheim. Ernst gave her in honor of a double tomb in the form of a Tumba in order, which is in a prominent place in the middle of the choir of the castle church.

Progeny

Number and names of the children from her marriage to Ernst von Baden are not completely preserved. As descendants are safe testified:

  • Margaret (* 1519, † 1571), married on November 12, 1538 the Count Wolfgang II von Oettingen (* 1511, † 1572)
  • Salome († 1549), married in 1540 with Count Ladislas of Mrs. Berg - Hague ( 1505-1566 )
  • Charles II ( 24 July 1529-23. March 1577 ), Margrave of Baden -Durlach
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