Margarethe Luther in 1530 (Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Said to be of Franconian ancestry, Margaretha married Hans Luther (15th century) in the Moehra region of Thuringia, Germany. She moved with her husband first to Eisleben, and then to Mansfeld where he sought his fortune in the copper mines. The term Franconian usually refers to Franconia (German Franken), a historic region in Germany, now part of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. ... Hans Luther (?-1530) is best known as the father of the reformer Martin Luther. ... The Free State of Thuringia (German: Freistaat Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the countrys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), being eleventh in size with an area of 16,200 km² and twelfth most populous with 2. ... Eisleben is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... Mansfeld can refer to: Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, a general of the Thirty Years War Mansfelder Land, a district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The most commonly present source of copper ore is chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), which accounts for about 50% of copper production. ...

The young couple were poor, but earned a modest fortune through hard work and thrift. By 1502, the couple were well-respected in the community, where Hans leased and operated several mines.

Margaretha was known to raise her children in a strict, but loving manner. Luther remembered both her physical discipline and the songs she sang. ^[1]

She died on June 30, 1531.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ E. G. Schwiebert, Luther and His Times: The Reformation from a New Perspective (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1950), 103-110.
2. ^ Schwiebert, 599.