Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg

Maria Eleonora
Portrait after Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1619
Queen consort of Sweden
Tenure25 November 1620 – 6 November 1632
Born11 November 1599
Königsberg, Duchy of Prussia
Died28 March 1655(1655-03-28) (aged 55)
Stockholm, Swedish Empire
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(m. 1620; died 1632)
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Christina, Queen of Sweden
HouseHohenzollern
FatherJohn Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg
MotherDuchess Anna of Prussia

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655) was Queen of Sweden from 1620 to 1632 as the wife of King Gustav II Adolph (Gustavus Adolphus).[1] She was born a German princess as the daughter of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and Anna, Duchess of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia.[2]

In 1620, Maria Eleonora married Gustavus Adolphus with her mother's consent, but against the will of her brother George William, Elector of Brandenburg, who had just succeeded her father. She bore her husband a daughter, Christina, in 1626, who later became the Queen of Sweden.[3]

  1. ^ Skogh, Lisa (5 July 2017). Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-55252-3.
  2. ^ Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands. BRILL. 1 July 2019. ISBN 978-90-04-40192-1.
  3. ^ The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...: Gustavus Adolphus. C. Knight. 1837.