Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (; 23 April 1532 in Münden – 20 March 1568 in NeuhausenThe town was originally renamed in 1946 as Guryevsk. near Königsberg in Prussia) was a Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneberg by birth and by marriage Duchess of

Prussia Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...

Life

Anna Maria was the daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg (1470–1540) and Elizabeth of Brandenburg (1510–1558). She married in 1550 Margrave Albert I of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1490–1568), who had been created the first Duke of Prussia in 1525; she was his second wife. Albert died of the plague on 20 March 1568 at

Tapiau Castle Gvardeysk ( rus, Гвардейск, p=ɡvɐrˈdʲejsk, a=Ru-Гвардейск.oga; known prior to 1946 by its German name Tapiau ; ; ), is a town and the administrative center of Gvardeysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on th ...

. Anna Maria herself died 16 hours later from the plague too.

Issue

*Elisabeth (20 May 1551 – 19 February 1596). *

Albert Frederick Albert Frederick (; ; 7 May 1553 – 27 August 1618) was the Duke of Prussia, from 1568 until his death. He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch ...

(29 April 1553 – 18 August 1618), who succeeded as Duke of Prussia.

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