most known slander against her was a story by Everhard van Reyd: he claimed that she hosted a brothel in Antwerp, and that her son had to drag her from it in her hair (1590). She was also compared to Empress Messalina. Cecilia lived in a difficult situation, as she was forced to support herself by loans due to her lack of income and was therefore often hunted by her creditors. In 1618, for example, her estate was taken and she fled by carriage to make contact with the archbishop of Trier in Luxembourg: to escape her persecutors, she was literary forced to abandon her carriage and jump over the border to Lorraine. Upon the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, however, the Protestant line of the Baden dynasty was deposed by the Imperial army and her grandson was as a Catholic allowed to take control over the entire territory of Baden. Cecilia was thereby able to return to her estate in Rodemachen and spend her last years in comfort. She died at a very advanced age for that time and is buried under the floor in the church in Rodemack. Issue Edward Fortunatus, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (1565–1600) Kristoffer Gustav of Baden-Rodemachern (1566–1609) Philip III, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (1567–1620) Karl of Baden-Rodemachern (1569–1590) Bernhard of Baden-Rodemachern (1570–1571) Johann Karl of Baden-Rodemachern (1572–1599) in the Knights Hospitaller Charitas Cecilia (1579–1629), illegitimate daughter, placed in a convent. Ancestors References Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (1906), Cecilia. Wilhelmina Stålberg & P.G. Berg: Anteqningar om svenska qvinnor (Notes on Swedish women) (in Swedish) Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen (2010). Vasadöttrarna (The Vasa Daughters). Falun: Historiska Media. (In Swedish) Further reading 1540 births 1627 deaths Cecilia 1540 House of Vasa 16th-century women rulers Margravines of Baden People from Stockholm Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism 16th-century Swedish people 17th-century Swedish people 16th-century German people Daughters of kings