Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Duchess consort of Prussia

Anna Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duchess consort of Prussia
Tenure| 26 February 1550 – 20 March 1568

Born| (1532-04-23)23 April 1532
Münden (Hann. Münden as of 1990)
Died| 20 March 1568(1568-03-20) (aged 35)
Neuhausen (Gurievsk as of 1946)
Spouse| Albert, Duke of Prussia
Issue
among others...| Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
House| House of Guelph
Father| Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Mother| Elizabeth of Brandenburg

Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (German: Anna Maria von Braunschweig-Calenberg-Göttingen; born: 23 April 1532 in Münden;[1] died: 20 March 1568 in Neuhausen[2] near Königsberg in Prussia) was a Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneberg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Prussia.

## Life[edit]

Anna Maria was the daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg (1470–1540) and Elizabeth of Brandenburg (1510–1558). She married in 1550 Margrave Albert I of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1490–1568), who had been created the first Duke of Prussia in 1525; she was his second wife. Albert died of the plague on 20 March 1568 at Tapiau Castle. Anna Maria herself died 16 hours later from the plague too.

## Issue[edit]

* Elisabeth (20 May 1551 – 19 February 1596).
* Albert Frederick (29 April 1553 – 18 August 1618), who succeeded as Duke of Prussia.

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ^ The town was originally called Münden, 160 years after Anna Maria's birth becoming part of the new Electorate of Hanover in 1692 it was also called Hannoversch Münden (Hanoverian Münden), but in 1991, the city officially adopted the abbreviated name of Hann. Münden
2. ^ The town was originally renamed in 1946 as Guryevsk.

## Bibliography[edit]

* Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1857). "Anna Maria". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: 44. Wikidata Q115748577.

Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

House of Welf

Born: 23 April 1532 Died: 20 March 1568

Vacant

Title last held by

Dorothea of Denmark |  Duchess consort of Prussia
1550–1568  | Succeeded by

Marie Eleonore of Cleves

* v
* t
* e

Prussian royal consorts

Duchesses|

* Dorothea of Denmark
* Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen
* Marie Eleonore of Cleves
* Anna of Prussia1
* Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate1
* Louise Henriette of Nassau1
* Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg1
* Sophia Charlotte of Hanover1

Queens|

* Sophia Charlotte of Hanover1
* Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin1
* Sophia Dorothea of Hanover1
* Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern1
* Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt1
* Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz1
* Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria
* Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach2
* Victoria of the United Kingdom2
* Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein2

1also Electress of Brandenburg; 2also German Empress

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* Poland

People|

* Deutsche Biographie

This article about a German duchess is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template