Christoph I, Margrave of Baden Baden

Life

Christoph was the eldest son of Karl I, Margrave of Baden-Baden and Catherine of Austria, a sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. He built the New Castle and moved there in 1479. In 1515 he divided his possessions between his sons Bernhard, Philipp and Ernst. Thus, Bernhard founded the so-called "Bernardine line" of Baden-Baden and Ernst founded the "Ernestine line" of Baden-Durlach.

Family and children

Margrave Christoph married on 30 January 1469 Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen (ca. 1451 – 15 August 1517), a granddaughter of Philipp I, Count of Katzenelnbogen. They had the following children:

1. Ottilie (6 June 1470 – 1490), Abbess in Pforzheim
2. Jakob (6 June 1471 – 27 April 1511, Cologne), Archbishop of Trier
3. Marie (2 July 1473 – 9 January 1519); Abbess in Lichtenthal
4. Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (7 April 1474 – 29 June 1536)
5. Karl (21 June 1476 – 7 October 1510), canon in Strasbourg and Trier
6. Christoph (21 July 1477 – 29 March 1508), canon in Strasbourg and Trier
7. Philipp (10 December 1478 – 17 September 1533); Margrave of Baden-Sponheim
8. Rudolf (16 June 1481 – 23 September 1532), canon in Mainz, Cologne, Strasbourg and Augsburg
9. Ernst, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (7 October 1482 – 6 February 1553)
10. Wolfgang (10 May 1484 – 24 June 1522)
11. Sibylle (26 April 1485 – 10 July 1518), married on 24 January 1505 to Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
12. Rosine (5 March 1487 – 29 October 1554), married:
    1. in 1503 to Count Franz Wolfgang of Hohenzollern;
    2. to Johann von Ow zu Wachendorf
13. John (d. 19 June 1490)
14. Beatrix (22 January 1492 – 4 April 1535), married in 1508 to Johann II, Count Palatine of Simmern
15. George (1 July 1493 – 16 November 1493)