Eleonore Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg


Eleonore Sophie, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg was a member of the Danish royal family and the consort of Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.

Biography

Eleonore was born in Sønderborg on 14 February 1603 to John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, the third son of Christian III of Denmark and Norway and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, the daughter of Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt.
On 28 February 1625 Eleonore married Prince Christian of Anhalt-Bernburg in Ahrensbök. They had fifteen children:
  1. Beringer.
  2. Sophie.
  3. Joachim Ernest.
  4. Christian, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.
  5. Erdmann Gideon, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.
  6. Bogislaw.
  7. Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.
  8. Eleonore Hedwig.
  9. Ernestine Auguste.
  10. Angelika.
  11. Anna Sophia, married on 20 September 1664 to George Frederick, Count of Solms-Sonnenwalde; their daughter Sophie Albertine married Karl Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.
  12. Karl Ursinus.
  13. Ferdinand Christian.
  14. Marie.
  15. Anna Elisabeth, married on 13 March 1672 to Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels.
In 1630 her husband succeeded his father, Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, as the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg. After her husband's death in 1656, their son Victor Amadeus became Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.
She died in Ballenstedt on 5 January 1675. She was buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien.