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Jan 15, 2016 · Elisabeth Christine was born on 28 August 1691 as the daughter of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen. She became engaged to the future Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor at the age of 13. She was to convert from Lutheran Protestantism to Roman Catholicism, which she did not like but she gave in ...
Elisabeth Christine. German Nobility. Queen consort to King Friedrich II. the Great of Prussia. The marriage was completely for political reasons. He was unwilling to marry her, but his father had imprisoned him in the Castle Küstrin and the only chance to be released was to marry. After the marriage in 1733 they lived in the Castle...
Apr 7, 2024 · frwiki Élisabeth-Christine-Ulrique de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel; itwiki Elisabetta Cristina Ulrica di Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel; jawiki エリーザベト・クリスティーネ・フォン・ブラウンシュヴァイク＝ヴォルフェンビュッテル (1746-1840) nlwiki Elisabeth Christine Ulrike van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel
Charles's father and his advisors went about arranging a marriage for him. Their eyes fell upon Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, the eldest child of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She was held to be strikingly beautiful by her contemporaries. On 1 August 1708, in Barcelona, Charles married her by proxy.
Elisabeth Christine was born the daughter of Duke Ferdinand Albert II and Duchess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. In 1733, Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, having failed in his attempt to flee from his father's tyrannical regime, was ordered to marry a daughter of the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia (1746–1840), daughter of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel; wife of Frederick William II of Prussia. Elizabeth Antonovna of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1743–1782), daughter of Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, imprisoned by Empress Elizabeth of Russia along with her ...
An etching of Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. A half length portrait with face inclined left, wearing a diadem and a pearl-encrusted dress with puffed sleeves. She rests her left arm upon a cushion supporting a crown and sceptre. Beneath the image is the French inscription Elisabeth-Christine de Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel ...
