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Margaretha von Waldeck (1533 – 15 March 1554) was the daughter of Philip IV, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1493–1574) and his first wife, Margaret Cirksena (1500–1537), daughter of Edzard I, Count of East Frisia. One author theorized in the 1990s that her life influenced the fairy tale of Snow White.
According to Sander, the character of Snow White was based on the life of Margaretha von Waldeck, daughter of Philip IV, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1493–1574) and his first wife, Countess Margaret Cirksena of Ostfriesland (1500–1537), daughter of Edzard I, Count of East Frisia.
Jun 1, 2012 · According to a German scholar named Eckhard Sander, Snow White was indeed real: A woman named Margarete von Waldeck whose life paralleled the folklore story. Wikipedia.de
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Back in the mid 1500s, there was a beautiful girl named Margarete von Waldeck who lived in a mining town called (...wait for it...) Waldeck, a small community in northwestern Germany.
In his work, Sander explores the parallels between the popular, 19th-century fairy tale “Snow White” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and the life of Margaretha von Waldeck (1533-1554), a German countess from Bad Wildungen, Hesse who was the mistress of Prince Philip II of Spain during the 1500’s.
In the 1980s and 1990s, some German authors suggested that the fairy tale could have been inspired by a real person. Eckhard Sander, a teacher, claimed that the inspiration was Margaretha von Waldeck, a German countess born in 1533, as well as several other women in her family.
Jul 8, 2021 · Margretha von Waldeck was a German countess, born in 1533 as the second daughter of Philip IV, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen and his first wife. She was an extraordinary beauty, with—you guessed it—fair skin and ruby lips but blonde instead of dark hair, as depicted in later versions of the story.
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