Noble family House of Guelph | Name Rosine Menthe | |
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Born 17 May 1663
Brunswick ( 1663-05-17 ) Died May 20, 1701, Braunschweig, Germany Spouse Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel (m. 1681–1701) People also search for Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel | ||
Rosine Elisabeth Menthe (nicknamed: Madame Rudolphine; 17 May 1663, Brunswick – 20 May 1701, Brunswick, Germany), was married morganatically with Duke Rudolph Augustus of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (1627–1704), Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel.
Life
Rosine Elisabeth was born the daughter of a barber and surgeon from Brunswick. In 1681 she married Rudolf August (1627–1704), the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. Rudolph Augustus had been married in his first marriage with the Countess Christiane Elisabeth of Barby (1634–1681); she had died on 2 May 1681. On 7 June 1681 or 7 July 1681, the Duke married Rosine, who had just turned eighteen. They married in Hedwigsburg, near Wolffenbuttel. The Duke's younger brother Anthony Ulrich and his Chancellor Philipp Ludwig Probst von Wendhausen were present.
She did not receive a title during her twenty year marriage to the duke; she was simply called Madame Rudolphine. We find this name in a letter from Electress Sophia of Hannover to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz of 18 August 1700. Children from this marriage would, according to an agreement Duke Rudloph Augustus made with his brother and co-ruler Anthony Ulrich, not receive a title either, but would receive "maintenance appropriate for a noble person". The marriage, however, remained childless.
In 1695, the Duke ordered his royal architect Hermann Korb to expand the Wasserburg castle at Vechelde near Brunswick into the royal Vechelde Palace. They would use the Madamenweg, which was named after her, to travel to Vechelde Palace from the Gray Court in downtown Brunswick.
Elisabeth Rosine Menthe died in 1701 at the Gray Court in Brunswick.