Emilie Antonia of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (15 June 1614 in
Delmenhorst
Delmenhorst (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Demost'') is an urban district (''List of German urban districts, Kreisfreie Stadt'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of 74,500 and is located west of downtown Bremen (city), Bremen with which ...
– 4 December 1670 in
Rudolstadt
Rudolstadt is a town in the German federal state Thuringia, within the Thuringian Forest, to the southwest, and to Jena and Weimar to the north.
The former capital of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the town is built along the River Saale inside a wide ...
), was Princess consort of
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt.
History
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was established in 1599 in the course of a resettlement of House of Schwarzburg, Schwarzburg dy ...
, and then
regent
In a monarchy, a regent () is a person appointed to govern a state because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been dete ...
of
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt.
History
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was established in 1599 in the course of a resettlement of House of Schwarzburg, Schwarzburg dy ...
during the minority of her son
Albert Anton from 1646 to 1662.
Life
Emilie was the daughter of Count Anthony II of Oldenburg and his wife Sibylle Elisabeth of Brunswick-Dannenberg.
She married on 4 February 1638 to Count
Louis Günther I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
When her husband died in 1646, she took up government as guardian and regent for her son,
Albert Anton. She was 32 when she took up the regency, and ruled until her son came of age in 1662.
Emilie gave her children a religious education along the lines promoted by the
Virtuous Society. She hired the author
Ahasverus Fritsch to act as her
Hofmeister. During her son's rule, Fritsch eventually rose to the post of Chancellor.
Emilie died on 4 December 1670 in Rudolstadt.
Issue
From her marriage to Louis Günther I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the following children were born:
* Sophie Juliane (1639-1672)
*
Ludmilla Elisabeth (1640-1672)
*
Albert Anton (1641-1710)
* Christiane Magdalene (1642-1672)
* Maria Susanna (1646-1688)
Ancestry
See also
*
House of Schwarzburg
The House of Schwarzburg was one of the oldest noble families of Thuringia, which is in modern-day central Germany. Upon the death of Prince Friedrich Günther in 1971, a claim to the headship of the house passed under Semi-Salic primogeniture t ...
*
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt.
History
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was established in 1599 in the course of a resettlement of House of Schwarzburg, Schwarzburg dy ...
References
* Friedrich Apfelstedt: ''Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit: dargestellt in den Stammtafeln seiner Haupt- und Nebenlinien und mit biographischen Notizen über die wichtigsten Glieder derselben'', Bertram, Sondershausen, 1890,
* Horst Fleischer, Hans Herz, Lutz Unbehaun and Frank Esche: ''Die Grafen von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Albrecht VII. bis Albert Anton'', Thüringer Landesmuseum
Heidecksburg
Heidecksburg is a Baroque architecture, Baroque palace in Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany. The palace served as the residence of the princes to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. It is located prominently approximately 60 m above the old town. After a fire ...
, Rudolstadt, 2000,
1614 births
1670 deaths
17th-century women regents
17th-century regents
Regents in the Holy Roman Empire
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House of Oldenburg in Oldenburg
Emilie
17th-century German novelists
Mothers of German monarchs
People from Delmenhorst
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