Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen
Anna Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg | |
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Duchess consort of Prussia | |
Tenure | 26 February 1550 – 20 March 1568 |
Born | (1532-04-23)23 April 1532 Münden (Hann. Münden as of 1990) |
Died | 20 March 1568(1568-03-20) (aged 35) Neuhausen (Gurievsk as of 1946) |
Spouse | Albert, Duke of Prussia |
Issue among others... | Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia |
House | House of Guelph |
Father | Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
Mother | Elizabeth of Brandenburg |
Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (German: Anna Maria von Braunschweig-Calenberg-Göttingen; 23 April 1532 in Münden[1] – 20 March 1568 in Neuhausen[2] near Königsberg in Prussia) was a Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneberg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Prussia.
Life
Anna Maria was the daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg (1470–1540) and Elizabeth of Brandenburg (1510–1558). She married in 1550 Margrave Albert I of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1490–1568), who had been created the first Duke of Prussia in 1525; she was his second wife. Albert died of the plague on 20 March 1568 at Tapiau Castle. Anna Maria herself died 16 hours later from the plague too.
Issue
- Elisabeth (20 May 1551 – 19 February 1596).
- Albert Frederick (29 April 1553 – 18 August 1618), who succeeded as Duke of Prussia.
Footnotes
- ^ The town was originally called Münden, 160 years after Anna Maria's birth becoming part of the new Electorate of Hanover in 1692 it was also called Hannoversch Münden (Hanoverian Münden), but in 1991, the city officially adopted the abbreviated name of Hann. Münden
- ^ The town was originally renamed in 1946 as Guryevsk.
Bibliography
- Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1857). "Anna Maria". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: 44. Wikidata Q115748577.
Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen House of Welf Born: 23 April 1532 Died: 20 March 1568 | ||
Vacant Title last held by Dorothea of Denmark | Duchess consort of Prussia 1550–1568 | Succeeded by |
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- Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen
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- Anna of Prussia1
- Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate1
- Louise Henriette of Nassau1
- Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg1
- Sophia Charlotte of Hanover1
- Sophia Charlotte of Hanover1
- Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin1
- Sophia Dorothea of Hanover1
- Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern1
- Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt1
- Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz1
- Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria
- Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach2
- Victoria of the United Kingdom2
- Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein2
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