Philip II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Philip II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Spouse(s)	Anna of Isenburg
Noble family	House of Hanau
Father	Philip I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Mother	Anna of Lichtenberg
Born	31 May 1462(1462-05-31) Hanau
Died	22 August 1504(1504-08-22) (aged 42) Babenhausen

Philip II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (born: 31 May 1462 in Hanau; died: 22 August 1504 in Babenhausen ruled the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1480 until his death.

Contents 1 Youth 2 Family 2.1 Marriage and issue 2.2 Extramarital relationships 3 Ancestors 4 References 5 Footnotes

Youth

Philip II was born on 31 May 1462 between 21:00 and 22:00, as the second son of the Count Philip I, the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen^[1] and his wife, Anna of Lichtenberg. He was baptized three days after the birth, in the St. Mary's Church in Hanau. His godparents were Konrad Brelle, abbot of Selbold Abbey, Wenceslaus of Cleves and Meze of Gemmingen, the widow of Eber-hard Waißen.

His older brother, John, died young, so that Philip succeeded his father as Count of Hanau-Babenhausen.

Family

Marriage and issue

He married on 9 September 1480 with Anna of Isenburg (d. 1522). A papal dispensation had been necessary for this marriage because they were related to each other in the fourth degree. they had the followng children:

1. Philip III (18 October 1482 – 15 May 1538).
2. Anna (1485 – 11 October 1559), a nun in the Marienborn Abbey
3. Margaret (1486 – 6 August 1560 in Babenhausen), also nun in the Marienborn Abbey, interned for life at Babenhausen Castle,^[2] because of a "slip".^[3] She was buried in the St. Nicholas church in Babenhausen.
4. Louis (born: 5 October 1487 in Buchsweiler; died: 3 December 1553 in Willstätt), unmarried clergyman
5. Maria (born: c. 1487;^[4] died: probably 1526), abbess of Klarenthal Abbey from 1512 to 1525
6. Amalia (born: 7 June 1490 in Buchsweiler; died 11 March 1552 in Pfaffenhoffen; bur-ied in St. Adelphi in Neuweiler), a nun
7. Reinhard (born: 19 February 1494 in Klingenberg am Main; died 7 June 1490 in Buchsweiler; buried in the St. Adelphi in Neuweiler), joined the clergy

Extramarital relationships

In addition, Count Philipp II probably had illegitimate children:^[5]

1. Hans of Hanau (1480–1484)
2. Cornelius of Hanau (born: between 1480 and 1484; died: 1549 )

The paternity of Count Philip II of Hanau-Lichtenberg of either Hans or Cornelius has not been conclusively proven. Both were maintained exclusively by the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg; this rules out paternity by a count of Hanau-Münzenberg. Philip II is the only member of the Hanau-Lichtenberg line with the right age to be their father.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Philip II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

8. Ulrich IV, Lord of Hanau (c. 1330-1380)                       4. Reinhard II, Count of Hanau (1369-1451)                             9. Elisabeth of Wertheim (1347-1378)                       2. Philip I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1417-1480)                                   10. Henry II, Count of Nassau-Beilstein (d. 1412)                       5. Catherine of Nassau-Beilstein (d. 1459)                             11. Catherine of Randerode (d. 1415)                       1. Philip II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg                                         12. Louis IV of Lichtenberg (1387-1434)                       6. Louis V of Lichtenberg (1433-1471)                             13. Anna of Baden (1399-1421)                       3. Anna of Lichtenberg (1442-1474)                                   14. Albert I of Hohenlohe (1370-1429)                       7. Elisabeth of Hohenlohe (d. 1488)                             15. Elisabeth of Hanau (d. 1475)

References

• M. Goltzené: Aus der Geschichte des Amtes Buchsweiler, in: Pay d’Alsace, vol. 111/112, p. 64 ff
• Hatstein, hand-written chronicle in the archives of the Hanauer Geschichtsverein
• E. Haug: Groß-Arnsburg bei Baerental, in: Wasgaublick, vol. 19, issue 10, 1991, p. 364-419.
• Bernhard Herzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Elsasser Chronick unnd außführliche beschreibung des unteren Elsasses am Rheinstrom, Strasbourg, 1592
• J. G. Lehmann: Urkundliche Geschichte der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg im unteren Elsasse, two vols., 1862, reprinted: Pirmasens, 1970
• Eckhard Meise: Bernhard Hundeshagen - kein Denkmalschutz im Hanau des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte, 2006, p. 3-62.
• Wilhelm Morhardt: Hanau alt's - in Ehren b'halt's - Die Grafen von Hanau-Lichtenberg in Geschichte und Geschichten = Babenhausen einst und jetzt, vol. 10, Babenhausen, 1984
• Reinhold Röhricht and Heinrich Meisner: Deutsche Pilgerreisen nach dem Heiligen Lande, Berlin, 1880
• Sebastian Scholz: Die Inschriften der Stadt Darmstadt und des Landkreises Darmstadt-Dieburg und Groß-Gerau = Die deutschen Inschriften vol. 49, series Mainze, vol. 6. ed. by Akademie der Wissenschaften Mainz, Wiesbaden, 1999
• Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, in: Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Hanau, 1894
• Georg Wittenberger: Stadtlexikon Babenhausen, Babenhausen, 1995
• Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land, 3rd ed., Hanau 1919, reprinted: 1978

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

Footnotes

1. ^ He is often called Philip I of Hanau-Lichtenberg, but this is an anach-ronism, as his part of the county was not called Hanau-Lichtenberg until after his death
2. ^ Morhardt, p. 34
3. ^ Only Wittenberg, p. 92, explicitly calls it a pregnancy
4. ^ Estimate based on the age on which she entered into the monastery and on her siblings
5. ^ See Haug, p. 419

Philip II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg House of Hanau Born: 31 May 1462 Died: 22 August 1504
Preceded by Philip I	Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg 1489-1504	Succeeded by Philip III

Persondata
Name	Philip II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Alternative names	Philipp II. von Hanau-Lichtenberg (German)
Short description	Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1489-1503)
Date of birth	31 May 1462
Place of birth	Hanau
Date of death	22 August 1504
Place of death	Babenhausen