Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (3 February 1587,

Wolfenbüttel Wolfenbüttel (; nds, Wulfenbüddel) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District. It is best known as the location of the internationally renowned Herzog August Library and for having the largest ...

– 16 October 1609,

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) was a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth and by marriage Princess of

Anhalt-Zerbst Anhalt-Zerbst was a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts Potsdam-Mittelmark (Brandenburg) and Wittenberg, the city of Dessau and the districts of Köthen, Schönebeck and Jerichower ...

Life

Dorothea Hedwig was the eldest child of the Duke Henry Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1564–1613) from his first marriage with

Dorothea Dorothea (also spelled Dorothée, Dorotea or other variants) is a female given name from Greek (Dōrothéa) meaning "God's Gift". It may refer to: People * Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), German concentration camp officer executed for war cr ...

(1563–1587), daughter of the Elector August of Saxony (1526–1586). Her birth caused the death of her mother. Dorothea Hedwig married on 29 December 1605 in Wolfenbüttel to Prince Rudolf von Anhalt-Zerbst (1576–1621). She died while giving birth to her fourth child, a still-born princess who was born an hour after the mother's death. The Princess was buried in the Bartholomai Church in Zerbst. Her motto was: ''The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom''.Max Löbe: ''Walsprüche: Devisen und Sinnsprüche'', Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009, p. 11

Children

From her marriage with Rudolp, Dorothea Hedwig had the following children: * Daughter (1606–1606) *

(1607–1634) : married in 1623 Duke Augustus the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1579–1666) * Eleonor (1608–1680) : married in 1632 Duke

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of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg (1581–1658) * Stillborn daughter (1609–1609)

References

* August B. Michaelis, Julius Wilhelm Hamberger: ''Einleitung zu einer volständigen Geschichte der Chur- und Fürstlichen Häuser in Teutschland'', vol. 3, Meyer, 1785, p. 674

Footnotes

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