Sophia van Brandenburg Sophia van Brandenburg (Zechlin, June 6, 1568 - Castle Colditz, December 7, 1622) was a daughter of keurvorst Johan George of Brandenburg and his second wife, Sabina van Ansbach. She married Christiaan I of Saxony in 1582 and had the following children:
Sophie was orthodox Lutheran and fought cryptocalvinism in Saxony. After the death of Christiaan I in 1591, she captured his calvinist chancellor Nikolaus Krell, an opponent of Lutheran orthodoxy, and allowed him to be executed in 1601. Referring to the pious widow Judith from the biblical book Judith, the orthodox Lutherans have since been honored as "Judith of Saxony". As a widow, Sophie lived in the Fraumutterhaus in Dresden and in the late Colditz, with the Sophiendukat making a coin and left the old Franciscan church in Dresden reunited for church services. This church has since been invited to her, Sophienkirche.
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