Anna of Pomerania (also known as ''Anne de Croy et Aerschot'', ''Anna von Croy und Aerschot, Anna von Pommern'') (3 October 1590,
Barth - 7 July 1660,
Stolp) was Duchess-Consort of Croy and Havré, and
allodial
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heiress of the extinct ruling house of the
Duchy of Pomerania
The Duchy of Pomerania (; ; Latin: ''Ducatus Pomeraniae'') was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (''Griffins''). The country existed in the Middle Ages between years 1121–11 ...
.
Eerly life and ancestry
She was youngest daughter of
Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania
Bogislaw XIII (Bogusław XIII) of Pomerania (9 August 1544 – 7 March 1606), son of Philip I and Maria of Saxony, was a prince of Stettin and Wolgast, and a member of the Griffins.
Bogislaw studied at the University of Greifswald at the age of ...
and his wife, Princess Klara of
Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was the last surviving member of the
House of Griffin
The House of Griffin or Griffin dynasty, (; , ; Latin: ''Gryphes''), or House of Pomerania (see ), was a dynasty ruling the Duchy of Pomerania from the 12th century until 1637. The name "Griffins" was used by the dynasty after the 15th century ...
(Greifen).
Marriage and issue
In 1619 she married Ernst von Croÿ (1588–1620), Prince and Duke of
Croÿ (1583–1620), an Imperial general, he would however die the following year. Ernst was the son of
Charles Philippe de Croÿ
Charles Philippe of Croÿ (1 September 1549 – 23 November 1613 in Burgundy), Marquis of Havré, was a soldier and politician from the Spanish Netherlands.
Life
He was the son of Philippe II de Croÿ and his second wife Anna of Lorraine. His ...
(1549–1613), who was the only son of
Philippe II of Croÿ, Duke of Aarschot by his second wife,
Princess Anna of Lorraine.
Their only son,
Ernst Bogislaw von Croy
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
* Anton Ernst (born ...
(1620–1684), became the last
Lutheran
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bishop of Kammin
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(now Kamień Pomorski).
See also
*
House of Croÿ
The House of Croÿ () is an old European noble family of princely and historically sovereignty, sovereign rank, which held a seat in the Reichstag (Holy Roman Empire), Imperial Diet from 1486, and was elevated to the rank of Princes of the Holy Ro ...
for short biographies of both Ernsts von Croy
External links
Anna, Prinzessin von Pommern-Stettin, Herzogin von Croy-Havré
1590 births
1660 deaths
People from Barth, Germany
Pomeranian nobility
People from the Duchy of Pomerania
People from the Holy Roman Empire
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