Elisabeth Juliane of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg

Princess Elizabeth Juliane of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Nordborg (24 May 1634 – 4 February 1704) was a Danish princess and a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg by birth and a member of the House of Welf by marriage.

Princess Elizabeth Juliane of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Nordborg
Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Undated portrait of The Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by a member of a German school.
Born	(1634-05-24)24 May 1634 Nordborg, Duchy of Schleswig
Died	4 February 1704(1704-02-04) (aged 69) Wolfenbüttel, Brunswick-Lüneburg
Buried	Marienkirche, Wolfenbüttel
Noble family	Oldenburg
Spouse(s)	Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Issue	August Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Elisabeth Eleanore Sophie, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen Anna Sophie, Princess Karl Gustav of Baden-Durlach Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Augusta Dorothea, Countess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt Henrietta Christine, Abbess of Gandersheim Louis Rudolph
Father	Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg
Mother	Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst

Life

Elizabeth Juliane was born in Nordborg as the oldest daughter of Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg, the sovereign duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg and his second wife Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst. Her paternal grandparents were John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and Duchess Elisabeth of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. Her maternal grandparents were Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576–1621) and Princess Dorothea Hedwig (1587–1609).

Together with her husband, she founded a monastery for noblewomen at Schloss Salzdahlum in 1699, and then selected the monastery's first conventual women herself.^[1]

Elisabeth Juliane died at Salzdahlum on 4 February 1704 and was buried in the crypt of the Wolfenbüttel in Marienkirche, Wolfenbüttel.^[2]

Marriage and children

On 17 August 1656, Elizabeth Juliane married her cousin Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. They had 13 children, seven of whom reached adulthood:^[3]

• Augustus Frederick (1657–1676)
• Elizabeth Eleanor Sophie (1658–1729), married John George, Duke of Mecklenburg-Mirow and Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Anne Sophie (1659–1742), married Charles Gustav of Baden-Durlach
• Leopold Augustus (1661-1662), died in infancy
• Augustus William (1662–1731)
• Augustus Henry (1663-1664), died in infancy
• Augustus Charles (1664-1664), died in infancy
• Augustus Francis (1665-1666), died in infancy
• Augusta Dorothea (1666–1751), married Anton Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt
• Amalia (1668-1668), died in infancy
• Henrietta Christina, Abbess of Gandersheim (1669–1753)
• Louis Rudolph (1671–1735)
• Sibylla Ursula (1672-1673), died in infancy

Elizabeth Juliane also suffered four miscarriages:

• A miscarried daughter (1660)
• A miscarried daughter (1667)
• A miscarried son (1670)
• A miscarried son (1674)