Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg (18 August 1575,

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– 11 February 1643,

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) was Countess Palatine of Neuburg and by marriage Duchess of

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Life

Anna Maria was the eldest child of the Count Palatine and Duke Philip Louis of Neuburg (1547–1614) and

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(1552–1632), daughter of Duke William of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. She was married on 9 September 1591 in Neuburg to Duke Frederick William I of Saxe-Weimar (1562–1602). On the occasion of the marriage, a medal was minted in gold, representing the couple, one on each side with a bust. In 1604 she moved with her children from

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, which was separated from Weimar as an independent

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for her sons. After she was widowed in 1602, Anna Maria sank into ''deep sadness'' and from 1612, she lived separate from her children on her

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, the District and City of Dornburg. During an attack on her Dornburg Castle by a Croatian force under General

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in 1631, during the

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, Anna Maria resisted the attackers but was robbed and wounded in the cheek. With the help of citizens rushed to the scene, the attackers were averted. Out of gratitude for this assistance, the Duchess donated a chalice to the local church. Anna Maria died in 1643 and was buried in the brick royal crypt in the Brethren Church in Altenburg.Christian Häutle: ''Genealogy of illustrious House of Wittelsbach'', 1870, p. 183

Issue

From her marriage With Frederic William, Anna Maria had the following children: * John Philip (1597–1639), Duke of Saxe-Altenburg : married in 1618 princess

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(1593–1650) * Anna Sophie (1598–1641) : married in Duke in 1618 Charles Frederick I of Münsterberg-Oels (1593–1647) *

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(1599–1625), Duke of Saxe-Altenburg * John William (1600–1632), Duke of Saxe-Altenburg *

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(1601–1675) : married in 1633 Duke Albert IV of Saxe-Eisenach (1599–1644) * Frederick William II (1603–1669), Duke of Saxe-Altenburg : married firstly in 1638 Princess

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(1616–1650) : married secondly, in 1652 Princess

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(1617–1668)

References

* Luise Hallof, Klaus Hallof: ''The inscriptions of the district Jena'', Akademie Verlag, 1995, p. 159 ff. * Association for Thuringian history and archeology, Jena: ''Journal of the Society for Thuringian History and Archaeology'', Volume 6-7, G. Fischer, 1865, p. 248 ff. * Johann Samuel Ersch: ''General Encyclopedia of the sciences and arts'', Volume 50, J.f. Gleditsch, 1849, p. 81

External links

* http://geneall.net/D/per_page.php?id=3483

Footnotes

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