Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg


Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, was a German noblewoman member of the House of Oldenburg and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.
Born in Sonderburg, she was the second of the four children born from the marriage of John Christian, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, and Countess Anna of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst. From her three older and younger siblings, two survive adulthood: Dorothea Auguste and Christian Adolph, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.

Life

In Weimar on 14 August 1656, Christine Elisabeth married John Ernest, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Weimar. They had five children:
  1. Anna Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg.
  2. Wilhelmine Christine, married on 25 September 1684 to Christian William I, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
  3. Eleonore Sophie, married on 9 July 1684 to Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Lauchstädt.
  4. William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar.
  5. John Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar.
After the death of her father-in-law, she became Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.
She died in Weimar aged 40. She was buried in the Fürstengruft, Weimar.