Later Life
Princess Cecilia now gave her sons in the custody of the Jesuits for education, while she, as a Catholic, took the responsibility of the estates of Baden-Rodemachern as regent. As regent within the Holy German Empire, she had the right to a seat at the empirical German-Roman assembly, a right she also used. She met the pope on several occasions and travelled between the Catholic courts of Europe. Her siding with the Catholics made her the target of Protestant propaganda, who accused her of hosting a brothel in Brussels (1594). She had many problems being hunted by creditors, nearly killed by one of them and chased into the house of the archbishop of Trier in Luxembourg in 1610. She died at a very advanced age for that time and is buried under the floor in the church in Rodemack.
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