Duchesses - British Duchesses, Duchesses of Bohemia, Fictional Dukes and Duchesses, French Duchesses, German Duchesses, Italian Du (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Adelaide of Holstein-Rendsburg, Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Amalie of the Palatinate, Anna Elisabeth of Anhalt-Bernburg, Anna Margaret of Hesse-Homburg, Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Anna of Brunswick-Luneburg (1502-1568), Anna of Saxe-Wittenberg, Catharine of Bourbon, Catherine de Lorraine (1407-1439), Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, Countess Henriette Charlotte of Nassau-Idstein, Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck, Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar, Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz, Dorothea of Saxe-Altenburg, Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst, Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg, Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode, Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania, Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg, Duchess of Guelders, Elisabeth of Hesse (1503-1563), Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Elizabeth of Nevers, Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Helena of Denmark, Helen of the Palatinate, Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg, Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Magdalene of Julich-Cleves-Berg, Magdalene Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673-1726), Margaret of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania, Margaret of Brandenburg (1450-1489), Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, Sibylle of Brandenburg, Sibylle of Julich-Cleves-Berg, Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Luneburg, Sophia of Hungary, Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Sophie of Saxe-Lauenburg. Excerpt: Margaret of Brandenburg (1511 - after 3 November 1577) was a Princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marrying first a Duchess of Pomerania and later a Princess of Anhalt. Margaret was the youngest daughter of the Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (1484-1535) from his marriage to Elisabeth (1485-1555), daughter of King John of Denmark. She married her first husband on 23 January 1530 in Berlin Duke George I of Pomerania (1493-1531). She brought a dowry of into the marriage, enabling George I to transfer a jointure consisting of the districts of Barth, Damgarten, Tribsees, Grimsby and Klempenow to her. The marriage hap apparently been agreed during negotiations at Grimnitz Castle about the constitutional relationship between Brandenburg and Pomerania. George I died a year after the marriage and Margaret enjoyed the revenue from het wittum for only three years. She was quite unpopular in Pomerania and when Prince John IV of Anhalt asked for her hand, her stepson Philip I, Duke of Pomerania had to levy a special tax to pay her dowry and redeem her jointure. Margaret and George had a posthumous child, a girl named Georgia. Georgia went with her mother to Anhalt, but returned to Pomerania when she was eight years old. Margaret succeeded in tough negotiations with her stepson, Philip I, to delay her return until May 1543. Her second husband was on 15 February 1534 in Dessau prince John V of Anhalt-Zerbst (1504-1551). Her marriage to John soon proved unhappy. Margaret fled from her husband to her wittum, Rosslau Castle. Martin Luther tried to mediate between John and Margaret. He visited her at Rosslau Castle and blamed her for leaving er husband cheekily. This started a fierce war or words. Luther later reported: I must have told her clearly enough, until I was attracting her wrath. John eventually accused Margaret of marital infidelity and imprisoned her in 1550. John's personal physician was tortured to make him confess a relationship with the princess, but he did not bud