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:
- Amalie (23 February 1540 in Bouxwiller – 1 May 1540)
- Philip V (21 February 1541, Bouxwiller, – 1599)
- Anna Sibylle (16 May 1542 – after 1590), married to Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
- Johanna (23 May 1543 in Bouxwiller; – 5 December 1599 in Babenhausen, buried there), married to Wolfgang of Isenburg-Büdingen-Ronneburg, divorced in 1573
- 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
- M. Goltzené: Aus der Geschichte des Amtes Buchsweiler, in: Pay d’Alsace, issue 111/112, p. 67.
- Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, in: Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Hanau, 1894
- Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land, 3rd ed., Hanau, 1919, reprinted 1978
Footnotes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Zimmern Chronicle, vol 3, p 440, Online
