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.

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.

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

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:

• 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)

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