Background
Eleanor was a daughter of Prince Rudolph of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576-1621) from his first marriage to Dorothea Hedwig (1587-1609), daughter of Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
Eleanor was a daughter of Prince Rudolph of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576-1621) from his first marriage to Dorothea Hedwig (1587-1609), daughter of Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
The ducal court in Nordborg had meager financial resources and Eleanor"s children had to seek a career elsewhere. The theologian Christoph Wilhelm Megander acted as her confessor from 1653 onwards. During the reign of her step-son John Bogislaw, the duchy experienced a bankruptcy and the fief was terminated by Denmark.
Unnamed child (1633-1633)
Elisabeth Juliane (1634-1704)
married in 1656 Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633-1714)
Dorothea Hedwig, abbess of Gandersheim Abbey from 1665 to 1678
married in 1678 Count Christopher of Rantzau-Hohenfeld (1625-1696)
Christian Augustus (1639-1687), English admiral
Louise Amöna (1642-1685)
married in 1665 Count John Frederick I of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Oehringen (1617-1702)
Rudolph Frederick (1645-1688)
married in 1680 Countess Bibiane of Promnitz (1649-1685).