Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (born: 13 January 1566 in

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; died: 13 August 1626 in

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

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Life

Mary was a daughter of the Duke

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(1528–1589) from his marriage to Hedwig (1540–1602), daughter of the Elector

Joachim II of Brandenburg Joachim II ( or ''Hektor''; 13 January 1505 – 3 January 1571) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1535–1571), the sixth member of the House of Hohenzollern. Joachim II was the eldest son of Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Br ...

. She married on 10 November 1582 at Wolfenbüttel with Duke

Francis II Francis II may refer to: * Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1433–1488) * Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1466–1519), ruler of the Italian city of Mantua * Francis II of France (1544–1560), king of France * Francis II, Duke of Lorraine ...

of Saxe-Lauenburg (1547–1619). She was his second wife. She was given

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as her

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; she created a

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and a court church there. Maria died in 1626 and was buried alongside her husband in the ducal family crypt in the Mary Magdalene Church in Lauenburg.

Issue

Maria and Francis had 14 children, of whom the following 12 reached adulthood: * Francis Julius of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (13 September 1584 – 8 October 1634,

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), ∞ on 14 May 1620 Agnes of

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(

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, 7 May 1592 – 25 November 1629, ibidem), daughter of Duke

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* Julius Henry of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg) (Wolfenbüttel, 9 April 1586 – 20 November 1665,

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), duke of Saxe-Lauenburg between 1656 and 1665 * Ernest Louis of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (7 June 1587 – 15 July 1620, Aschau) * Hedwig Sibylla of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (15 October 1588 – 4 June 1635) * Juliana of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (26 December 1589 – 1 December 1630,

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* Joachim Sigismund of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (31 May 1593 – 10 April 1629) * Francis Charles of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (2 May 1594 – 30 November 1660, Neuhaus), ∞ in Barth on 19 September 1628 (1) Agnes of

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(Berlin, 27 July 1584 – 16 March 1629, Neuhaus), daughter of Elector John George; ∞ in

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on 27 August 1639 (2)

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(

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, 28 May 1602 – 9 February 1649,

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), daughter of Elector John Sigismund * Rudolph Maximilian of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (18 June 1596 – 1 October 1647,

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); ∞ Anna Caterina de Dulcina * Hedwig Maria of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (7 August 1597 – 29 August 1644), ∞ in 1636 Prince Annibale Gonzaga of

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(1602 – 2 August 1668) * Francis Albert of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (31 October 1598 – 10 June 1642, Schweidnitz); ∞ on 21 February 1640 in

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Christina Margaret of

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(Güstrow, 31 March 1615 – 6 August 1666, Wolfenbüttel), daughter of

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John Albert II was a brother of Duke Adolphus Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. * Sophia Hedwig of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg upon Elbe, 24 May 1601 – 21 February 1660,

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); ∞ on 23 May 1624 in Neuhaus

Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg Philip of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (15 March 1584 – 27 September 1663) was the first Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg after the death of his father in 1622. He was the son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and Duches ...

(15 March 1584 – 27 September 1663), son of

* Francis Henry of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (9 April 1604 – 26 November 1658), ∞ on 13 December 1637 in

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Countess Maria Juliana of Nassau-Siegen (

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, 14 August 1612 – 21 January 1665,

near

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), daughter of

John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen Count John VII the Middle of Nassau-Siegen (7 June 1561 – 27 September 1623), , official titles: ''Graf zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Beilstein'', was since 1606 Count of Nassau-Siegen, a part of the Count ...

Footnotes

References

* Johann Samuel Ersch: ''Allgemeine encyclopädie der wissenschaften und künste'', Part 1, vol. 28, J. f. Gleditsch, 1848, p. 69 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mary Brunswick Luneburg Middle House of Brunswick 1566 births 1626 deaths Duchesses of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duchesses of Saxe-Lauenburg Duchesses in the Holy Roman Empire Daughters of dukes Mothers of Saxon monarchs