Anna, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg (née Countess Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg; 4 January 1579 – 9 December 1624) was the consort of

Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, also known as Christian of Anhalt, (11 May 1568 – 17 April 1630) was a German prince of the House of Ascania. He was ruling prince of Anhalt and, from 1603, ruling prince of the revived principality of An ...

Biography

Countess Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg was born in Bentheim on 4 January 1579 to Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg and Magdalena of Neuenahr-Alpen. On 2 July 1595 she married

in Lorbach. They had sixteen children: #Frederick Christian (b. and d. Amberg, 2 May 1596). #Amalie Juliane (b. Amberg, 10 September 1597 – d. Neinburg,

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, 11 August 1605). # Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (b. Amberg, 11 August 1599 – d. Bernburg, 22 September 1656). # Eleonore Marie (b. Amberg, 7 August 1600 – d. Strelitz, 17 July 1657), married on 7 May 1626 to

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-Güstrow. #A daughter (b. and d. Amberg, May? 1601). #Sibylle Elisabeth (b. Amberg, 10 February 1602 – d. Strelitz, 15 August 1648). #Anna Magdalene (b. Amberg, 8 March 1603 – d. 30 October 1611). #Anna Sophie (b. Amberg, 10 June 1604 – d. Bernburg, 1 September 1640). #Louise Amalie (b. Amberg, 14 January 1606 – d. Bernburg, 17 October 1635). #Ernest (b. Amberg, 19 May 1608 – d.

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, 3 December 1632), colonel of a cavalry regiment in Saxon service, fatally wounded at the

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. #Amöena Juliane (b. Amberg, 13 November 1609 – d. Bernburg, 31 July 1628). #Agnes Magdalene (b. Amberg, 8 October 1612 – d.

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, 17 July 1629). # Frederick, Prince of Anhalt(-Bernburg)-Harzgerode (b. Ensdorf, 16 November 1613 – d.

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, 30 June 1670). #Sophie Margarete (b. Amberg, 16 September 1615 – d. Dessau, 27 December 1673), married on 14 July 1651 to

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. #Dorothea Matilde (b. Amberg, 11 August 1617 – d. Bernburg, 7 May 1656). #Frederick Louis (b. Amberg, 17 August 1619 – d.

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, 29 January 1621). In 1603 her husband became the Prince of

Anhalt-Bernburg Anhalt-Bernburg was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and a duchy of the German Confederation ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Bernburg in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It emerged as a subdivision from the Principality of ...

, making her the consort. Anna died on 9 December 1624 in

Bernburg Bernburg (Saale) is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, capital of the Salzlandkreis district. The former residence of the Anhalt-Bernburg princes is known for its Renaissance architecture, Renaissance castle. Geography The town centre is situated ...

. She is buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien.

References

{{authority control 1579 births 1624 deaths Burials at Schlosskirche St. Aegidien (Bernburg) German countesses House of Bentheim Princesses by marriage Princesses of Anhalt-Bernburg