Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.
Life
Mary was born in Schladen, a daughter of the Duke Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from his marriage to Hedwig, daughter of the Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg.She married on 10 November 1582 at Wolfenbüttel with Duke Francis II of Saxe-Lauenburg. She was his second wife. She was given Franzhagen Castle as her wittum; she created a Meierhof and a court church there.
Maria died in Lauenburg in 1626 and was buried alongside her husband in the ducal family crypt in the Mary Magdalene Church in Lauenburg.
Issue
Maria and Francis had 14 children, of whom the following 12 reached adulthood:- Francis Julius of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia, ∞ on 14 May 1620 Agnes of Württemberg, daughter of Duke Frederick I
- Julius Henry of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg), duke of Saxe-Lauenburg between 1656 and 1665
- Ernest Louis of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia
- Hedwig Sibylla of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia
- Juliana of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia, ∞ on 1 August 1627 Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Nordborg, son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
- Joachim Sigismund of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia
- Francis Charles of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia, ∞ in Barth on 19 September 1628 Agnes of Brandenburg, daughter of Elector John George; ∞ in Ödenburg on 27 August 1639 Catherine of Brandenburg, daughter of Elector John Sigismund
- Rudolph Maximilian of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia ; ∞ Anna Caterina de Dulcina
- Hedwig Maria of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia, ∞ in 1636 Prince Annibale Gonzaga of Bozzolo
- Francis Albert of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia ; ∞ on 21 February 1640 in Güstrow Christina Margaret of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, daughter of John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg
- Sophia Hedwig of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia ; ∞ on 23 May 1624 in Neuhaus Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
- Francis Henry of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia, ∞ on 13 December 1637 in Treptow an der Rega Countess Maria Juliana of Nassau-Siegen, daughter of John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen