Sabina Catharina of East Frisia
Sabina Catharina of East Frisia was a Countess of Rietberg in what is now Germany.Life
Sabina Catharina was the eldest child of Count Enno III of East Frisia and his first wife, Countess Walburgis of Rietberg. In the Treaty of Berum of 28 January, the lands her father had inherited from her mother were divided between Sabina Catherine and her sister Agnes, because their father wanted to marry again. Sabina Catherine was awarded the County of Rietberg.
On 3 March 1601, Sabina married her uncle, John III, in a ceremony officiated by Abbot Leonard Ruben of Abdinghof Abbey. The necessary papal dispensation was issued on 13 April 1600. Before the wedding the couple converted to the Catholic faith. In 1618, the couple laid the foundation for the Franciscan monastery in Rietberg. The founding document of the monastery was issued in 1629.
Sabina Catharina died on 31 May 1618 during the birth of her eleventh child. The coffin was buried in the chapel.Marriage and issue
Sabina Catharina and John III had eleven children:
- Edzard
- Anna Walburgis
- Maria Catherine, married to the Marquis de Warenbon
- Ernest Christopher,, Count of Rietberg 1625-1640, Vice Marshal, married Margravine Albertine Maria of St. Martin
- Philip Enno, a canon of Cologne, Strasbourg and Paderborn
- Leopold, a canon of Cologne, Strasbourg and Paderborn
- Walburgis Maria
- Francis Ferdinand, a canon of Cologne, Magdeburg, Strasbourg and Halberstadt
- Clara Sophia
- Anna Clara
- John IV, 1640–1660, Count of Rietberg 1640–1660, married to Countess Anna Catherine of Salm-Reifferscheidt. They had issue.
