Background
On 4 May 1584 and without the consent of her father, Anna became engaged with John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach.
On 4 May 1584 and without the consent of her father, Anna became engaged with John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach.
Born in Dresden, she was the twelfth of fifteen children born from the first marriage of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and Anna, Princess of Denmark. The marriage finally took place in Dresden on 16 January 1586, and she received 30,000 talers as a dowry and the city of Römhild as her Wittum (Dower land). The cheerful and high-spirited Duchess soon produced magnificent festivities in her new court.
However, the marriage soon failed: John Casimir preferred more hunting and therefore spend several weeks far away.
John Casimir at the last moment change the death sentence to life imprisonment. Anna was sent firstly to Eisenach, then to Kahlenberg Castle, in 1596 to the former Sonnefeld Monastery and finally (1603) to the Veste Coburg, where she died in 1613, aged 45.
She was buried in the Klosterkirche, Sonnefeld. Ulrich of Lichtenstein died in prison twenty years later, on 8 December 1633, just three days after was announced to him his freedom.
