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unusual facts about Hedwig


Jadwiga

It originated from the old German Hedwig (compounded from hadu, "battle", and wig, "fight").


Anna of Cilli

In early 1413, five-year old Princess Hedwig Jagiellon was officially proclaimed heiress to the Polish throne during a congress in Jedlnia.

Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

#Sophie Hedwig (b. Merseburg, 4 August 1660 - d. Saalfeld, 2 August 1686), married on 18 February 1680 to Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Saalfeld.

Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

# Sophie Hedwig (4 August 1660 in Merseburg – 2 August 1686 in Saalfeld), married on 18 February 1680 to Duke John Ernest of Saxe-Saalfeld

Duchess Sabine of Württemberg

She married on 11 February 1566 in Marburg Landgrave William IV of Hesse-Kassel, whose younger brother Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg was already married with Sabines older sister Hedwig and whom she had met when William negotiated Louis's marriage with her father.

Elizabeth Henrietta

Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel, the daughter of William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Hedwig Sophia of Brandenburg.

Hadewych of Meer

The Blessed Hadewych, O.Praem., (c. 1150 – 14 April 1200?) a.k.a. Hadewig or Hedwig, was abbess of the Premonstratensian monastery of Meer, (now part of Meerbusch) in modern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Hedwig Codex

The Hedwig Codex is a medieval illuminated manuscript of the Life of Hedwig of Silesia, produced in the court workshop of Ludwig I of Liegnitz and Brieg in 1353.

Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria

In 14 November 1475 Hedwig married Duke George of Bavaria in Landshut, which started the tradition of the famous medieval pageant Landshut Wedding.

Hedwig Swimberghe

Hedwig Swimberghe is a Belgian clarinetist, leading the Brussels Clarinet choir, and teaching at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

Helvig of Schauenburg

Helvig of Schauenburg (1398–1436), also known as Hedwig of Schauenburg, was a duchess of Schleswig and a countess of Holstein from the family of Schauenburg, and ancestor of the Danish Royal houses of Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Henry IV the Faithful

#Hedwig (b. ca. 1316 – d. 28 May? 1348), Abbess of Trebnitz.

Herodias

Salome, opera by Richard Strauss, based on a German translation (by Hedwig Lachmann, grandmother of Mike Nichols) of the play by Oscar Wilde.

Jan II the Mad

#Hedwig (b. October 1476 – d. Ziębice, 15 February 1524), married firstly on July 1489 to George I of Poděbrady, Duke of Ziębice-Oleśnica (Münsterberg-Oels), and secondly on 23 October 1503 to Sigismund, Baron of Wartenberg.

John I of Lüben

In February 1445 John I married Hedwig (b. ca. 1433 – d. 21 October 1471), daughter of Duke Louis II of Brieg.

John I and Henry X were the legitimate heirs of that land, as grandsons of Duke Henry IX of Lüben, elder brother of Duke Louis II, Elisabeth's late husband, who left her Liegnitz and Brieg (already give by the Dowager Duchess to both brothers in 1443) in 1436; in addition, John I had another claim over Liegnitz through his marriage with Hedwig, youngest daughter of Louis II and Elisabeth.

John of Isenburg-Kempenich

John had one child: a daughter, Hedwig, who was married to Peter of Schöneck.

Konrad I of Oleśnica

# Hedwig (b. ca. 25 March 1338 – d. ca. 1351), married by 11 August 1345 to Duke Nikolaus II of Opawa (Troppau).

Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Sophia Hedwig of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg upon Elbe, 24 May 1601 – 21 February 1660, Glücksburg); ∞ on 23 May 1624 in Neuhaus Philipp of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (15 March 1584 – 27 September 1663), son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

Milanówek

During World War II urn with the heart of Frédéric Chopin, transferred from Holy Cross Church in Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, was stored in St. Hedwig Church in Milanówek.

Paul Sturm

From 1919 he lived with his second wife Hedwig Weckwerth, the widow of the medallist Hermann Weckwerth, at Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia.

Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia

Rostislav married Hedwig Maria Gertrud Eva von Chappuis (6 December 1905 – 9 January 1997) on 19 November 1954.

Princess Michael

Princess Michael of Kent née Baroness Marie Christine Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz, wife of Prince Michael of Kent

Raoul Hausmann

He moved to Paris, then Peyrat-le-Chateau, near Limoges, living there illegally with his Jewish wife Hedwig, in a quiet, secluded manner, until 1944 .

In the late 1920s, he re-invented himself as a fashionable society photographer, and lived in a ménage à trois with his wife Hedwig and Vera Broido in the fashionable district of Charlottenberg, Berlin.

Richard Stöhr

Stöhr had one sibling, a sister named Hedwig (birth date unknown) who died in Modliborzyce in the custody of the Nazis on January 2, 1942.

Rose Warfman

She had two sisters, Antoinette Feuerwerker born in 1912 in Antwerpen, Belgium and Hendel (Hedwig) Naftalis, born in 1913 in Zürich, as was also her brother Salomon Gluck in 1914.

Sanctuary of St. Jadwiga in Trzebnica

The first abbess was Petrussa from Kitzingen Abbey; she was followed by Gertrude, the daughter of Hedwig.

Tadeusz Żukotyński

Żukotyński's work can also be found in the state of Indiana where his stations of the cross can be seen at St. Hedwig's in South Bend, Indiana, as well as his frescoes in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.

Ursule Molinaro

In collaboration with the German expatriate Hedwig Rappolt she translated Christa Wolf's novel Kindheitsmuster (Patterns of Childhood).


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