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Religion
  
Lutheranism

Name
  
Dorothea of

House
  
House of Wittelsbach


Dorothea Susanne of Simmern

Tenure
  
November 1566 - 1572 1572 - 2 March 1573

Born
  
15 November 1544 Simmern (
1544-11-15
)

Issue
  
Frederick William I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Father
  
Frederick III, Elector Palatine

Mother
  
Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Died
  
April 8, 1592, Weimar, Germany

Spouse
  
Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (m. 1560–1573)

Children
  
Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Parents
  
Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Frederick III, Elector Palatine

Similar People
  
Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, John Frederick I - Elector of, Sibylle of Cleves, Bernard of Saxe‑Weimar, Ernest I - Duke of Saxe‑Gotha

Dorothea Susanne of Simmern (15 November 1544 in Simmern – 8 April 1592 in Weimar) was a princess of the Electorate of the Palatinate and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.

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Life

Dorothea Susanne was the daughter of elector palatine Frederick III (1515–1576) from his marriage to Marie (1519–1567), daughter of Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

She married on 15 June 1560 in Heidelberg Duke John William, of Saxe-Weimar (1530–1573). After their marriage, the couple lived mostly in Weimar. After the death of her husband Elector August, of Saxony acted as guardian of her children. This policy was meant to isolate the children from their mother's political and religious influence. She was assigned a new residence outside Weimar, appropriately named New House. The Red Castle in Weimar was built for her from 1574 to 1576. She used it as her widow seat after its completion Its Renaissance portal is decorated with an alliance coat of arms of Dorothea Susanne and her husband.

In 1581, the widowed Duchess turned to write to her brothers, Louis VI and John Casimir to induce the guardian of her eldest son, Elector August in Dresden, to promote the marry her eldest son with a Württemberg princess.

Dorothea Susanne died in 1592 and was buried in the church of St. Peter und Paul in Weimar; her motto was I Know That My Redeemer Lives.

Offspring

From her marriage, Dorothea Susanne had the following children:

  • Frederick William I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. Weimar, 25 April 1562 - d. Weimar, 7 July 1602).
  • first married in 1583 Princess Sophia of Württemberg (1563-1590) married secondly in countess palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg
  • Sibylle Marie (b. Weimar, 7 November 1563 - d. Altenburg, 20 February 1569).
  • stillborn son (Weimar, 9 October 1564).
  • John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. Weimar, 22 May 1570 - d. Weimar, 18 July 1605).
  • married in 1593 princess Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574-1614)
  • Maria (b. Weimar, 7 October 1571 - d. Quedlinburg, 7 March 1610), Abbess of Quedlinburg (1601–1610).
  • References

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