Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
| Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | |
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Engraving by Johannes Frentzel, 1654.
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| Duchess consort of Saxe-Weisselfels | |
| Reign | 1657-1669 |
| Born |
1 July 1627 Schwerin |
| Died | 11 December 1669 (aged 42) Halle |
| Spouse | Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels |
| Issue |
Magdalene Sibylle., Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels Prince Augustus Prince Christian Princess Anna Maria Sophie, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst Christine, Princess of Holstein-Gottorp Henry, Count of Barby Prince Albert |
| Father | Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
| Mother | Anna Maria of Ostfriesland |
Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Schwerin, 1 July 1627 – Halle, 11 December 1669) was a German noblewoman, a member of the House of Mecklenburg and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels.
She was the fourth child and second daughter of Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by his first wife Anna Maria, daughter of Enno III, Count of Ostfriesland. In older historiography she appears with a third name, Dorothea, but modern historians have discarded it.
The wars involving Mecklenburg forced her father to send Anna Maria and her two older brothers, Christian Louis and Karl, first to Sweden and shortly afterwards to Denmark, to the court of Dowager Queen Sophia (born Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow). In 1629 Anna Maria was sent to Saxony with Dowager Electress Hedwig, to the latter's dower state, Castle Lichtenberg near Prettin, where she was educated. After Hedwig's death in 1642, Anna Maria returned to Schwerin, where she was reunited with her father, her mother having died in 1634. She also probably then met for the first time her stepmother, Marie Katharina of Brunswick-Dannenberg, and her three surviving half-siblings. Anna Maria was her father's favorite child as demonstrated by the cordial, even affectionate tone of the letters that they wrote to each other.
On 23 November 1647, in Schwerin, Anna Maria married Augustus, second surviving son of Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony, and moved with her husband to Halle, the main city of his domains as Administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. During her marriage, she bore twelve children, including three daughters who died in infancy in 1663.
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