![]() ![]() Little is known of her life or their marriage, except that they were contented. Blasius Church, and were able to marry at Dornheim on 17 October 1707, thanks to an inheritance of 50 gulden (more than half his annual salary) which he received from his maternal uncle, Tobias Lämmerhirt. They became close during Bach's tenure as organist of Mühlhausen's St. The extended Bach family was closely knit, and as Maria Barbara was his second cousin, it is fairly safe to assume that they knew each other at least casually from childhood. Maria Barbara was twenty-three years old when she married Johann Sebastian Bach. Her godparents were Martin Feldhaus, a merchant and burgomaster in Arnstadt, and Magarethe Wedermann (daughter of the Arnstadt town scribe Johann Wedemann)., with whom she lived after her mother's death in 1704. Her older sister, Barbara Catherina, gave testimony on Bach's behalf in the famous 'Geyersbach' incident in which Bach was punched in the face by a student and defended himself by drawing his sword. Her father was organist and town scribe at Gehren. ![]() Maria Barbara Bach was born at Gehren, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, to Catherina (d. ![]()
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