Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg

Maria Eleonora
Maria Eleonora
	Portrait after Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1619
Queen consort of Sweden
Tenure	25 November 1620 – 6 November 1632
Born	11 November 1599; Königsberg, Duchy of Prussia
Died	28 March 1655 (aged 55); Stockholm, Swedish Empire
Burial	Riddarholmen Church
Spouse	Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden (m. 1620; died 1632)
Issue; More..	Christina, Queen of Sweden
House	Hohenzollern
Father	John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg
Mother	Duchess 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]

^ 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.
^ Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands. BRILL. 1 July 2019. ISBN 978-90-04-40192-1.
^ The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...: Gustavus Adolphus. C. Knight. 1837.

[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.

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