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 (1453-11-13)13 November 1453
Baden-Baden
Died 19 April 1527(1527-04-19) (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

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.

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Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Born: 13 November 1453 Died: 19 March 1527
Preceded by
Karl I
Margrave of Baden
1475–1515
Succeeded by
Philipp I, Bernhard III and Ernst
Preceded by
Philipp
Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg
1503-1515
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