Elizabeth Juliana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Nordborg

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)