Marriage and Children
In Weimar on 26 May 1555 John Frederick II married his first wife Agnes of Hesse, Dowager Electress of Saxony. Six months later she suffered a miscarriage and died, on 4 November 1555.
In Weimar on 12 June 1558 John Frederick II married his second wife Countess Palatine Elisabeth of Simmern-Sponheim, daughter of the later (1559) Frederick III, Elector Palatine. They had four sons:
- John Frederick (b. Weimar, 30 November 1559 – d. Weimar, 8 August 1560)
- Frederick Henry (b. Heldburg, 3 February 1563 – d. Eisenberg, 4 August 1572)
- John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (b. Gotha, 12 June 1564 – d. Coburg, 16 July 1633)
- John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (b. Gotha, 9 July 1566 – d. Eisenach, 23 October 1638)
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“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man’s fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?—as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.”
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