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. Born in Celle, she was the ninth of fifteen children born from the marriage of

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and Dorothea, Princess of Denmark.

Life

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on 16 September 1599, Margaret married

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as his second wife. Most of the wedding guests stayed before and during the marriage festivities at Heldburg Castle. Gilded state coaches, which belonged to the dowry of her mother Dorothea, were used for the occasion; they are one of the oldest still functioning coaches in the world and currently displayed at the

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. John Casimir celebrated his marriage with the famous ''Coburg Taler'': on the obverse showed a kissing couple with the inscription WIE KVSSEN SICH DIE ZWEY SO FEIN (''A well kiss between two''), while on the reverse, showed a nun with the inscription: WER KVST MICH - ARMES NVNNELIN (''who kiss you now, poor nun?''). This nun was

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, his first wife, whom he repudiated and imprisoned for adultery. John Casimir and Margaret had a happy marriage, but they had no children. After John Casimir's death in 1633 Saxe-Coburg was inherited by his brother

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. Margaret returned to her homeland, Celle, where she died ten years later, aged 70. She was buried in the ''Stadtkirche'', Celle.

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References

*Thomas Nicklas: ''Das Haus Sachsen-Coburg – Europas späte Dynastie''. ed. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003. *Carl Kiesewetter: ''Faust in der Geschichte und Tradition'', Georg Olms ed., 1978. *Sigismund Librowicz: ''Der Kuss und das küssen'', LIT ed. Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2004. , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Brunswick-Luneburg, Margaret of Margaret 1573 births 1643 deaths People from Celle Margaret