Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg

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Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Gifhorn, Holzplastik in der Schlosskapelle Gifhorn

Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg (1518–1576) was a Princess of Saxe-Lauenburg and Duchess of Brunswick-Gifhorn by marriage.

Life

Clara was born on 13 December 1518 in Lauenburg upon Elbe, a daughter of Duke Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg (1470–1543) and his wife Catherine (1488–1563), daughter of Duke Henry I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

She married Duke Francis of Brunswick-Gifhorn (1508–1549) on 29 September 1547 in the Saxe-Lauenburgian castle at Neuhaus in Darzing. The couple were greatly loved by their subjects even if their short marriage of convenience was unlucky. Clara, who was very benevolent and went into medicine, used to prepared a herbal beer (Kräuterbier) for the poor and sick, which was produced long after her death.[1]

Following the untimely death of her husband, Clara lived at the dower pledged to her as a life annuity in Fallersleben.,[2] where she finished building work on her castle in 1551 and presided over a boom in the local economy. Later she went to the court of her daughter in Barth, where she died on 27 March 1576. Clara was interred in St. Mary's Church there.[3] Her tomb in the castle chapel in Gifhorn is empty.[4]

Descendants

Clara had two daughters from her marriage:

∞ 1564 Burgrave Henry VI of Meißen (1536–1572)
∞ 1. 1565 Prince Bernhard VII of Anhalt (1540–1570)
∞ 2. 1572 Duke Bogislaw XIII of Pomerania (1544–1606)

Ancestry

Family of Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Bernard II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Bogislaw VIII, Duke of Pomerania
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Adelheid of Pomerania-Stolp
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Sophia of Holstein
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Elisabeth of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Dorothea of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Frederick I, Elector of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Catherine of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. William the Victorious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. William IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Cecilia of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Bodo VII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Elisabeth of Stolberg-Wernigerode
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Anna of Schwarzburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Eric II, Duke of Pomerania
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Sophie of Saxe-Lauenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Catherine of Pomerania-Wolgast
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Bogislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Sophia of Pomerania-Stolp
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Maria of Masovia
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. H. Ch. Heimbürger, Wilhelm der Jüngere, Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg u. Stammvater des Hauses Hannover: Ein Lebens- and Zeitbild nach ungedruckten and gedruckten Quellen dargestellt, E. H. Ch. Schulze, 1857, p. 10
  2. Ernst of Malortie: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Brunswick-Lüneburgischen Hauses and Hofes, Hahn, 1864, p. 85,
  3. Andrea Baresel-Brand: Grabdenkmäler nordeuropäischer Princeenhäuser im Zeitalter der Renaissance 1550-1650, Verlag Ludwig, 2007, S. 212
  4. Schloss Gifhorn at www.kuris-reisen.de.

Sources

  • Johann H. Steffens: Johann Henry Steffens Auszug aus der Geschichte des Gesammthauses Brunswick-Lüneburg, Bartsch, 1785, S. 381

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