Career
As widow, she fired the Calvinist court vicar and reinstated Jacob Fabricius in 1616. She governed Husum castle as her dowry and there promoted arts and culture, music and gardening and schools. She supported and recommended the persecuted writer Anna Ovena Hoyer, when she fled from Holstein-Gottorp to the Swedish queen, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg in 1632.
Her marriage to John Adolf produced eight children, four boys and four girls.
Her last child, a son, did not survive infancy. Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (22 December 1597 – 10 August 1659).
Elisabeth Sofie (12 October 1599 – 25 November 1627), married on 5 March 1621 to Duke Augustus of Saxe-Lauenburg. Adolf (15 September 1600 – 19 September 1631).
Dorothea Augusta (12 May 1602 – 13 March 1682), married in 1633 to Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
Hedwig (23 December 1603 – 22 March 1657), married on 15 July 1620 to Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Anna (19 December 1605 – 20 March 1623). John (18 March 1606 – 21 February 1655).
Christian (born and died 1 December 1609).