Dorothea of Saxony

Dorothea of Saxony
Spouse(s)	Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Noble family	House of Wettin
Father	Augustus, Elector of Saxony
Mother	Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony
Born	4 October 1563(1563-10-04) Dresden
Died	13 February 1587(1587-02-13) (aged 23) Wolfenbüttel

Dorothea of Saxony (German: Dorothea von Sachsen; 4 October 1563, Dresden – 13 February 1587, Wolfenbüttel) was a Saxon princess from the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Life

Dorothy was a daughter of the Elector Augustus of Saxony (1526-1586) from his marriage to Anna (1532-1585), daughter King of the Christian III of Denmark. Only four of the 15 children from the marriage of her parents, who survived their father; Dorothea was among them.

She married on 26 September 1585 in Wolfenbüttel the later Duke Henry Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1564-1613). Her mother Anna was at that time seriously ill and Dorothea had felt very badly and cried pitifully when she said farewell.^[1] In this poem, Henry embodied Henry the Lion.

The marriage would consolidate a Protestant alliance of German princes, led by Count Palatine John Casimir of Simmern, who had married Dorothea's sister Elizabeth in 1570.

Dorothea died in childbirth in 1587. She was only 23 years old.

Issue

From her marriage to Henry Julius Dorothea had one daughter:

• Dorothea Hedwig (1587-1609)

married in 1605 Rudolf of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576-1621)

Ancestors

References and sources

• Wilhelm Havemann: Geschichte der Lande Braunschweig und Lüneburg, p. 421
• Günter Meissner: Saur allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, K.G. Saur Verlag, p. 508
• Jörg Jochen Berns: Höfische Festkultur in Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, 1590-1666: Vorträge eines ..:, p. 421
• Karl August Muffat: Die Verhandlungen der protestantischen Fürsten in den Jahren 1590 und 1591 ..., p. 5
• This page is a translation of its German equivalent.

Footnotes

1. ^ Karl von Weber: Anna Churfürstin zu Sachsen geboren aus königlichem Stamm zu Dänemark, p. 495

Persondata
Name	Dorothea of Saxony
Alternative names	Dorothea von Sachsen (German)
Short description	Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Date of birth	4 October 1563
Place of birth	Dresden
Date of death	13 February 1587
Place of death	Wolfenbüttel