Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken

Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken
Spouse(s)	Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach
Noble family	House of Wittelsbach
Father	John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg
Mother	Catherine of Sweden
Born	1616
Died	1662
Burial	Castle Church, Pforzheim

Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1616–1662) of the House of Wittelsbach, margravine of Baden-Durlach, was a Swedish princess. She was the daughter of John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg and princess Catherine of Sweden (a granddaugther of Gustav I of Sweden, making Christina a vital link between the house of Vasa and the later houses of Holstein-Gottorp and Bernadotte). This made Christina Magdalena a sister of Charles X of Sweden, all of whose siblings were princes and princesses of Sweden.

Biography

Christina Magdalena was described as a "somewhat pretty and pleasing woman" and was reportedly a friend of the queen dowager Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. After the death of her mother, Christina Magdalena was asked by the Swedish parliament to contribute to the education of Maria Eleonora's daughter, the later Queen Christina. She did this until her marriage in 1642.

Negotiations for her marriage began in 1637 and included "a young and rich Marquess of Huntly" (1641). In 1641, Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach visited Sweden. After having befriended her brother, he was accepted as her suitor.

In 1642 she married Frederick. The wedding was postponed for several days after a fire broke out at the ball before their designated wedding date on 26 November 1642. Her spouse applied for a position in the Swedish army, but the Swedish military did not wish to employ foreign princes, and therefore, the couple moved to Germany.

Issue

All Swedish kings from Adolf Frederick to Charles XIII were descended from Christina Magdalena. She was also the origin of other European royal lines, such as that of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. The eight children of Frederick and Christina, including two ancestors of the Swedish royal line, were:

• Friedrich Kasimir (1643–1644)
• Christine (1645–1705)

∞ 1. 1665 Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1620–1667)

∞ 2. 1681 Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646–1691)

• Eleonore Katharine (*/† 1646)
• Friedrich VII. Magnus (1647–1709), Margrave of Baden-Durlach

∞ 1670 Princess Auguste Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (1649–1728) (→ Ancestors of Swedish kings of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, via their daughter Albertina Frederika of Baden-Durlach, who was the mother of King Adolf Fredrick of Sweden; ancestors of the House of Bernadotte, via Gustaf VI Adolf's mother, Victoria of Baden, who was a grandaughter of Adolf Frederick's great-granddaughter Sophia of Sweden

• Karl Gustav of Baden-Durlach (1648–1703)

∞ 1677 Princess Anna Sophie of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1659–1742)

• Katharine Barbara (1650–1733)
• Johanna Elisabeth (1651–1680)

∞ 1673 Margrave Johann Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1654–1686) (→ Ancestors of the Swedish kings of the House of Bernadotte, by Charles XV of Sweden's and Oscar II's mother, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, as was their daughter's daughter was her granddaughter)

• Friederike Eleonore (*/† 1658)

Ancestry

References

• http://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0114.html (in Swedish)

Preceded by Countess Elisabeth Eusebia of Fürstenberg

Margavine consort of Baden-Durlach 1659 - 1662

Succeeded by Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp

Persondata
Name	Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken
Alternative names	Christine Magdalena von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg (German);
Short description	Swedish Princess by birth; margravine of Baden-Durlach by marriage
Date of birth	1616
Place of birth
Date of death	1662
Place of death