- Margarete of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
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Margarete of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Spouse(s) John, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels Noble family House of Guelph Father Henry II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Mother Maria of Württemberg Born 1516 or 1517 Died 28 November 1580
StauffenburgMargarete of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1516 or 1517 – 28 October 1580, Stauffenburg) was a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth and by marriage Duchess of Münsterberg, Oels and Bernstadt.
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Life
Margaret was the eldest child of the Duke Henry II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1489–1568) from his first marriage to Maria of Württemberg (1496–1541), daughter of Count Henry of Württemberg.
She married on 8 September 1561 in Oleśnica Duke John of Münsterberg and Oels (1509–1565). With permission from the Estates, the castle and lordship of Frankenstein were reserved for Margarete as her Wittum. After four years of childless marriage, John died and Margarete's stepson Charles Christopher sold off Frankenstein. This caused a dispute between Margarate and Charles Christopher and his heirs, which was settled on 25 April 1577 by the intervention of Emperor Rudolf II in his capacity as King of Bohemia.
In the meantime, Margarete had returned to Brunswick. She lived at the court of her brother Julius until in 1569 he gave her the lordship and castle of Stauffenburg,[1] where she devoted herself to the care of the poor and the sick and the needy.[2]
She died on 28 October 1580 in Stauffenburg.
References and sources
- Johann Samuel Ersch: Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, part 2, vol. 21, Gleditsch, 1842, p. 350
- This page is a translation of its German equivalent.
External links
External links
- ^ Karl Friedrich Bege: Geschichten einiger der berühmtesten Burgen und Familien des Herzogthums Braunschweig, Holle, 1844, p. 192
- ^ http://www.karstwanderweg.de/staubur.htm
Categories:- House of Welf
- German nobility
- 16th-century German people
- 1580 deaths
- Year of birth uncertain
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