Princess Christine Elisabeth | |
Succession: | Duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar |
Reign: | 1662–1679 |
Reign-Type: | Tenure |
House: | Oldenburg |
Father: | John Christian, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg |
Mother: | Anna of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst |
Spouse: | John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar |
Issue: | Anna Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg Wilhelmine Christine, Countess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Eleonore Sophie, Duchess of Saxe-Merseburg-Lauchstädt William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar John Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar |
Birth Date: | 23 June 1638 |
Birth Place: | Sonderburg |
Death Place: | Weimar |
Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (23 June 1638 – 7 June 1679), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Oldenburg and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.
Born in Sonderburg, she was the second of the four children born from the marriage of John Christian, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, and Countess Anna of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst. From her three older and younger siblings, two survive adulthood: Dorothea Auguste (by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt) and Christian Adolph, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.[1] [2]
In Weimar on 14 August 1656, Christine Elisabeth married John Ernest, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Weimar. They had five children:
After the death of her father-in-law (1662), she became Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.
She died in Weimar aged 40. She was buried in the Fürstengruft, Weimar.[3]
|-