Eleonore of Fürstenberg

Eleonore of Fürstenberg
Spouse(s) Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Father Frederick III of Fürstenberg
Mother Anna of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg
Born 11 October 1523
Died 23 June 1544 (aged 20)
Bouxwiller
Buried Abbey of St. Adelphi in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne

Eleonore of Fürstenberg (11 October 1523 23 June 1544[1] in Bouxwiller) was a daughter of Count Frederick III of Fürstenberg. Eleanore was a convinced Protestant. However, she had little influence on the change of denomination in Hanau-Lichtenberg, due to her untimely death.

On 22 August 1538 in Heiligenberg, she married Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg. They had the following children:

  1. Amalie (23 February 1540 in Bouxwiller 1 May 1540)
  2. Philip V (21 February 1541, Bouxwiller, 1599)
  3. Anna Sibylle (16 May 1542 after 1590), married to Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
  4. Johanna (23 May 1543 in Bouxwiller; 5 December 1599 in Babenhausen, buried there), married to Wolfgang of Isenburg-Büdingen-Ronneburg, divorced in 1573
  5. Eleanor (26 April 1544 in Bouxwiller; 6 January 1585), married to Albert of Hohenlohe

She died in childbirth in 1544, only 21 years old,[2] and was buried in the Abbey of St. Adelphi in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne.

References

Footnotes

  1. In a deed archived in the state archives in Darmstadt under the signature D7:1/1, her death date is stated as 29 June 1544
  2. Zimmern Chronicle, vol 3, p 440, Online