Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg


Anna, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg was the consort of Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.

Biography

Countess Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg was born in Bentheim on 4 January 1579 to Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg and Magdalena of Neuenahr-Alpen.
On 2 July 1595, she married Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg in Lohrbach. They had sixteen children of which only nine lived to mature adulthood:
  1. Frederick Christian.
  2. Amalie Juliane, died in childhood.
  3. Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.
  4. Eleonore Marie, married on 7 May 1626 to John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.
  5. A daughter.
  6. Sibylle Elisabeth.
  7. Anna Magdalene, died in childhood.
  8. Anna Sophie.
  9. Louise Amalie.
  10. Ernest, colonel of a cavalry regiment in Saxon service, fatally wounded at the Battle of Lützen (1632).
  11. Amöena Juliane, died in adolescence.
  12. Agnes Magdalene, died in adolescence.
  13. Frederick, Prince of Anhalt(-Bernburg)-Harzgerode.
  14. Sophie Margarete, married on 14 July 1651 to John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.
  15. Dorothea Matilde.
  16. Frederick Louis, died in early childhood.
In 1603, her husband became the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, making her the princess consort. Anna died on 9 December 1624 in Bernburg, aged just 45, and was buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien.