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:''For the Queen Consort of James VI and I, king of Scotland, England and Ireland, see Anne of Denmark'' Anne of Denmark or ''Anna'' (22 November 1532, Haderslev – 1 October 1585, Dresden〔()〕) was Electress of Saxony and Margravine of Meissen. She was a member of the House of Oldenburg. ==Life== Anne was the eldest child of King Christian III of Denmark and his wife Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg. Anne learned needlework from her mother as well as herbs, home care, and agriculture. In 1548, she married Augustus I of Saxony ( "Father of August"). She went on to have fifteen children; eleven of them would die young. The couple took up residence at Weissenfels. Before each birth she brought out her shrouds, so they'd be at hand in case of an emergency. She washed and churned herself, doctored her husband and also tried to gain influence on state affairs when court officials did not like the idea of "female domination" at the Saxon court. Elector August was furious, angry that he even changed his religious affiliation to his own form of Lutheranism. Chancellor Craco died under torture, the Philippist doctor Caspar Peucer went to jail, and others went into exile. To celebrate this event a medal was made, with an inscription "To commemorate the victory of orthodoxy over reason". Anne, very pleased with this development because it was close to even the orthodoxy and took the ancient right of the princesses. She remained irreconcilable, even when her daughter Elizabeth married John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Anne urged her daughter to stay away from her husband, which led to a severe marital crisis. John Casimir finally forbade the correspondence of his wife with her mother. When Elizabeth gave birth to a stillborn child, she said to her mother, it was better that her child was dead than a Calvinist. Annaburg was named in her honour. She set up two labs and put together an art book with recipes. Anna was in correspondence with famous doctors and trained young girls in traditional herbal medicine. Anna managed refugees, pregnant and sick. She founded the Anne's Church .In 1869, the so-called Anne Memorial by Robert Henze was built. Today it stands next to the ceremonial hall of the Anne Old Cemetery in Dresden. Anne died in 1585 in Dresden of Plague. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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