Of all our great grandmothers, Maria Sporrer braved a life of near constant peril and sorrow, enduring the greatest of our family tragedies, the Thirty Years War. Her life was probably the most tragic in the 600 years of Dollhopf history. She had the unique distinction of being our 10th great-grandmother twice – both of the men she married were our blood-related 10th great-grandfathers. She and her first husband Johann Holl were the parents of Barbara Holl, our 9th great-grandmother; she and her second husband Cuntz Dollhopf were the parents of Cuntz, our 9th great-grandfather.