Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Hedwig of Brandenburg 23 February 1540 – 21 October 1602, a item of a Hohenzollern dynasty, was Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg as living as Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1568 to 1589, by her marriage with the Welf duke Julius.

Life

Born at the City Palace in Cölln today part of Berlin, Hedwig was a younger daughter of Elector Joachim II Hector of Brandenburg 1505–1571 from hismarriage with Hedwig Jagiellon 1513–1573, a daughter of King Sigismund I of Poland. Her elder sister Elizabeth Magdalena was married to Duke Francis Otto of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1559; however, her husband died in the same year.

One year later, on 25 February 1560, Hedwig was married in Cölln on the Spree river to the Welf prince ] father, Duke Henry V

After Julius had reconciled with his father, who had agreed only reluctantly to the marriage of his son with a Protestant princess, the couple received the castles of Hessen together with Schladen as residences. As Julius's elder brothers had been killed in the 1553 Battle of Sievershausen, Duke Henry V was alleged to gain appeared at Hessen Castle and permit himself into the room of his daughter-in-law, took her newborn son Henry Julius from the cradle in addition to exclaimed: You'll now clear to be my beloved son!

In 1568 Julius succeeded his father as ruling Anne Marie Schombach nicknamed Schlüter-Liese, whom he received at the Wolfenbüttel court in 1571, and gradually estranged from his wife.

Hedwig was subjected as a pious and humble, with preference for domestic activities. In 1598, the theologician Stephan Prätorius committed his book "The Widow's Consolation" to Hedwig.