Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst
Eleonore of Anhalt-Zerbst was a member of the House of Ascania and a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst by birth and by marriage Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg.Life
Eleanor was a daughter of Prince Rudolph of Anhalt-Zerbst from his first marriage to Dorothea Hedwig, daughter of Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
She married on 15 February 1632 in Norburg with Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg. She was his second wife. The ducal court in Nordborg had meager financial resources and Eleanor's children had to seek a career elsewhere. The theologian Christoph Wilhelm Megander acted as her confessor from 1653 onwards. During the reign of her step-son John Bogislaw, the duchy experienced a bankruptcy and the fief was terminated by Denmark.
Eleanor died in 1681 on her widow's seat Østerholm Castle on Als and was buried beside her husband.Issue
From her marriage Eleanor had the following children:
