Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden

Christopher I, Margrave of Baden
Christoph of Baden-Baden by Hans Baldung, 1515
Spouse(s)	Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen
Noble family	House of Zähringen
Father	Karl I, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Mother	Catherine of Austria
Born	13 November 1453 Baden-Baden
Died	19 April 1527 (aged 73) Baden-Baden

Christoph I of Baden (13 November 1453 – 19 April 1527) was the Margrave of Baden from 1475 to 1515.

Life

Christoph was the eldest son of Karl I, Margrave of Baden-Baden and Catherine of Austria, a sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. He built the New Castle and moved there in 1479. In 1515 he divided his possessions between his sons Bernhard, Philipp and Ernst. Thus, Bernhard founded the so-called "Bernardine line" of Baden-Baden and Ernst founded the "Ernestine line" of Baden-Durlach.

Family and children

Detail of a painting showing Christoph I

Margrave Christoph married on 30 January 1469^[1] Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen (ca. 1451 – 15 August 1517), a granddaughter of Philipp I, Count of Katzenelnbogen. They had the following children:

1. Ottilie (6 June 1470 – 1490), Abbess in Pforzheim
2. Jakob (6 June 1471 – 27 April 1511, Cologne), Archbishop of Trier
3. Marie (2 July 1473 – 9 January 1519); Abbess in Lichtenthal
4. Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (7 April 1474 – 29 June 1536)
5. Karl (21 June 1476 – 7 October 1510), canon in Strasbourg and Trier
6. Christoph (21 July 1477 – 29 March 1508), canon in Strasbourg and Trier
7. Philipp (10 December 1478 – 17 September 1533); Margrave of Baden-Sponheim
8. Rudolf (16 June 1481 – 23 September 1532), canon in Mainz, Cologne, Strasbourg and Augsburg
9. Ernst, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (7 October 1482 – 6 February 1553)
10. Wolfgang (10 May 1484 – 24 June 1522)
11. Sibylle (26 April 1485 – 10 July 1518), married on 24 January 1505 to Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
12. Rosine (5 March 1487 – 29 October 1554), married:
    1. in 1503 to Count Franz Wolfgang of Hohenzollern;
    2. to Johann von Ow zu Wachendorf
13. John (d. 19 June 1490)
14. Beatrix (22 January 1492 – 4 April 1535), married in 1508 to Johann II, Count Palatine of Simmern
15. George (1 July 1493 – 16 November 1493)

Ancestors

Ancestors of Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden

16. Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden-Baden               8. Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden                       17. Mathilda of Sponheim-Starkenburg               4. Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden                             18. Louis X, Count of Oettingen               9. Anna of Oettingen                       19. Beatrix of Helfenstein               2. Karl I, Margrave of Baden-Baden                                   20. John I, Duke of Lorraine               10. Charles II, Duke of Lorraine                       21. Sophie of Württemberg               5. Catherine of Lorraine                             22. King Rupert of Germany               11. Margaret of the Palatinate                       23. Elisabeth of Nuremberg               1. Christoph I, Margrave of Baden                                         24. Albert II, Duke of Austria               12. Leopold III, Duke of Austria                       25. Johanna of Pfirt               6. Ernst, Duke of Austria                             26. Bernabò Visconti               13. Viridis Visconti                       27. Beatrice Regina della Scala               3. Catherine of Austria                                   28. Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia               14. Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia                       29. Euphemia of Opava               7. Cymburgis of Masovia                             30. Algirdas               15. Alexandra of Lithuania                       31. Uliana of Tver

References

1. Demandt, Karl E. (1955). "Die letzten Katzenelnbogener Grafen und der Kampf um ihr Erbe". Nassauer Annalen (Wiesbaden: Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung) 66: 93–132. Retrieved 28 October 2011.

External links

• Article in the ADB