Countess Palatine Anna of Veldenz

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This article is about the Margravine of Baden-Durlach. For her great-great-grandmother, see Anna of Veldenz, Countess Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken.
Anna of Veldenz
Anna of Veldenz - Margravine of Baden-Durlach
Born(1540-11-12)12 November 1540
Died30 March 1586(1586-03-30) (aged 45)
Graben
Noble familyHouse of Wittelsbach
Spouse(s)Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach
FatherRupert, Count Palatine of Veldenz
MotherUrsula of Salm-Kyrburg

Countess Palatine Anna of Veldenz (12 November 1540 – 30 March 1586) was born a countess of Palatinate-Veldenz and, by marriage, Margravine of Baden-Durlach. From 1577 to 1584 she was involved in the guardianship and regency of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach.

Life

Anna was the eldest child of the Count Palatine Rupert of Veldenz (1506–1544) from his marriage to Ursula (1515–1601), daughter of Wild- and Rhinegrave John VII of Salm-Kyrburg.

She married Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach on the first of August 1558 in Heidelberg; it was his second marriage. Like her husband, Anna held a Lutheran faith and the children from both his marriages were also raised as Lutherans.

When her husband died, his sons were still minors. Therefore, she acted as guardian and regent from 1577 until her son Ernest Frederick came of age in 1584. Her co-regents were Elector Palatine Louis VI and Duke Louis "the Pious" of Württemberg. In 1584, Baden-Durlach was split: her eldest son Ernest Frederick, received the largest part and became Margrave of Baden-Durlach. Her second son James received Baden-Hachberg and had his residence at Emmendingen. He converted to Catholicism in 1590 and reverted his territory to the Catholic faith. However, a short while later, he died of arsenic poisoning and Baden-Hachberg fell to his brother Ernest Frederick.

When Ernest Frederick died in 1604, all parts of Baden were reunited under his brother George Frederick.

Margravine Anna's young chaplain John Zehender was responsible for her pastoral care in the last years of her life and held an impressive funeral sermon on 5 April 1586.

Issue

From her marriage Anna had the following children:

  • Dorothea Ursula (1559–1583)
married in 1575 with Duke Louis of Württemberg (1554–1593)
married in 1585 Princess Anna of East Frisia (1562–1621)
  • James (1562–1590), Margrave of Baden-Hachberg
married in 1584 with Countess Elizabeth of Culemborg-Pallandt (1567–1620)
  • Anna Marie (1565–1573)
  • Elizabeth (1570–1611)
  • George Frederick (1573–1638), Margrave of Baden-Durlach
married firstly, in 1592, Wild- and Rhinegravine Juliane Ursula of Salm-Neufville (1572–1614)
married secondly, in 1614, Countess Agathe of Erbach (1581–1621)
married thirdly, in 1621, in a morganatic marriage, Elizabeth Stotz (d. 1652)

References

  • Johannes Zehender: Dritte der "Drey Leichpredigen von christlichem unnd Gottseligem Absterben/ der Durchleuchtigen...Anna Marggräfin zu Baden, Tübingen, 1586

Ancestors

Family of Countess Palatine Anna of Veldenz
16. Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken
8. Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
17. Anna of Veldenz, Countess Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken
4. Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
18. Antoine I de Croÿ
9. Johanna of Croÿ
19. Margaret of Lorraine-Vaudémont
2. Rupert, Count Palatine of Veldenz
20. Kraft V of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim
10. Kraft VI, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim
21. Margaret of Oettingen
5. Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
22. Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg
11. Helen of Württemberg
23. Margaret of Savoy
1. Anna of Veldenz
24. John V, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Dhaun-Kyrburg
12. John VI, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Dhaun-Kyrburg
25. Johanette of Salm
6. John VII, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Dhaun-Kyrburg
26. Nicholas of Moers-Saarwerden
13. Joanna of Moers-Saarwerden
27. Barbara of Vinstingen-Schwanenhals
3. Ursula of Salm-Kyrburg
28. Louis II, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen
14. Philip, Count of Isenburg-Ronneburg
29. Maria of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
7. Amma of Isenburg-Büdingen
30. Philip II, Count of Rieneck
15. Amalia of Rieneck
31. Anna of Wertheim

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Countess Palatine Anna of Veldenz
Born: 12 November 1540 Died: 30 March 1586
Preceded by Regent of the Magraviate of Baden-Durlach
1577-1584 		Succeeded by
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