Anna III, also known as Anna of Stolberg (3 April 1565 – 12 May 1601) was
Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
This is a list of princess-abbesses of Quedlinburg Abbey
Quedlinburg Abbey (german: Stift Quedlinburg or ) was a house of secular canonesses ''(Frauenstift)'' in Quedlinburg in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was founded in 936 on the in ...
from 1584 until her death.
Anna was the daughter of Count
Henry of Stolberg
Count Henry of Stolberg (2 January 1509 – 12 November 1572 at Stolberg Castle) was a German nobleman.
Life
Henry was born at Stolberg Castle in Stolberg, the fourth son of the ruling Count Bodo VIII and his wife Countess Anna of Eppste ...
(1509–1572) and his wife, Elisabeth of Gleichen (died 1578).
Anna III was elected to succeed
Elisabeth II, Abbess of Quedlinburg. The election of the new princess-abbess was confirmed by
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. She frequently confronted Quedlinburg city council and the city patron,
Christian I, Elector of Saxony
Christian I of Saxony (29 October 1560 in Dresden – 25 September 1591 in Dresden) was Elector of Saxony from 1586 to 1591. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
He was the sixth but second surviving son of Elector Augu ...
, and appealed to the Emperor for support.
Elector Christian I died in 1591 and was succeeded by
Elector Christian II under the regency of
Frederick William I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Friedrich Wilhelm I (25 April 1562 in Weimar – 7 July 1602 in Weimar) was a duke of Saxe-Weimar. He was the eldest son of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Dorothea Susanne of Simmern.
Life
At the time of the death of his father ...
. The Princess-Abbess selected
Anne Margaret of Brunswick-Harburg as her coadjutrix but the Duke of Saxe-Weimar refused to consent as he wanted his own sister,
Maria
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
* 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
* Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, ...
, to succeed Anna III.
Anna III died suddenly aged 36 after a walk. The official cause of her death was stroke. She was succeeded by her enemy's sister.
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Abbesses of Quedlinburg
House of Stolberg
Lutheran abbesses
1565 births
1601 deaths