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Mapping Consorts

This section presents maps of various locations and journeys that are significant to the Queens Consort at the centre of our research. Journeys include trips taken at the point of their marriage to their husband’s court and will later expand to show other important travels and key locations from their lives.

Due to the difficulty in finding accurate maps from the period for the entire geographical area, the information in this section is presented with modern state boundaries displayed.

Marriage Journeys

Katarzyna Jagiellonka: Vilnius to Åbo / Turku

4 October - 21 December 1562

On 4th October 1562 the Polish princess Katarzyna Jagiellonka, sister of King Zygmunt August of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, married Duke Johan of Finland, later King John III of Sweden and Grand Prince of Finland. She was thirty-six years of age.

The couple were married in the lower castle of Vilnius, Lithuania, without the permission of King Eric XIV of Sweden - Duke Johan’s half-brother - which added to the existing political tensions. Immediately after the wedding Katarzyna Jagiellonka began her journey to Turku Castle in Finland, arriving in late December 1562.

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Luise Ulrike: Berlin to Drottningholm

6 July - 26 August 1744

On July 6, 1744, Luise Ulrike, princess of Prussia, sister of Fredrik II married by proxy the crown prince of Sweden, Adolf Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp in Berlin. She was twenty-four years of age.

Luise Ulrike’s bridal journey began shortly after her proxy wedding. She left Berlin in July 1744 and reached Stockholm in late August 1744. We are well informed about this jouney thanks to the numerous letters the princess wrote to her family. Most of these letters have been published by Fritz Arnheim.

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Maria Amalia: Dresden to Naples

12 May - 12 July 1738

On 9 May 1738 Maria Amalia, Princess of Saxony and Poland (1724-1760), married by proxy Carlo, King of the Two Sicilies. She was then thirteen years of age.

Maria Amalia started her bridal journey at the Palace of Pillnitz a short distance from Dresden on the River Elbe. She was accompanied on the forty-one day trip by her brother Electoral Prince Friedrich Christian (1722-63). We are uniquely well informed about this journey because of a wealth of manuscript sources, most of them in the Hauptstaatsarchiv in Dresden.

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Marie-Louise Gonzague de Nevers: Fontainebleau to Cracow

25 September 1645 - 14 July 1646

On 25th September 1645 the French princess Marie-Louise Gonzague de Nevers, daughter of Charles I, Duke of Mantua and consort to two Polish kings, signed a marriage contract with Władysław IV Vasa of Poland, with a proxy marriage ceremony in the Palais-Royal in Paris on 5th November. She was thirty-four years of age.

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Zofia Jagiellonka: Warsaw to Wolfenbüttel

28 January - 22 February 1556

On 28th January 1556 the Polish princess Zofia Jagiellonka, sister of King Zygmunt August of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, left Warsaw for Wolfenbüttel, marrying the 66-year-old Duke Heinrich II of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel on 24th February. She was thirty-three years of age.

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