Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach

Ernestine and her older sister Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach were brought up in Essen Abbey. Emperor Charles VI arranged her marriage with the 48-year-old William the Younger of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels. The marriage took place on 19 September 1719 and remained childless. After her husband died in 1731, she initially lived at Rheinfels Castle, later she moved into the Carmelites monastery in Neuburg an der Donau, where she was known under the religious name Sister Teodora and eventually became prioress. According to Torsy and Kracht, she was a model for her sisters of obedience, humility and love of poverty. She had a reputation of sanctity when she died in 1775. She was buried in the Court Church in Neuburg.

• Chronicle of Wanfried (Unpublished)
• J. Torsy and H.J. Kracht: Der Große Namenstagskalender, Freiburg, Basel and Vienna, 2002

• Article about Ernestine of Sulzbach
• "Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German).
• Entry for Ernestine of Bavaria at the Ecumenical Saints Lexicon

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