Landgravine Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg

Maria Eleonore
Countess Palatine of Sulzbach
Spouse Theodore Eustace of Sulzbach
Issue Count Palatine Joseph Charles
Francisca Christina, Abbess of Essen
Ernestine, Landgravine of Hesse-Rotenburg
John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
Anne Christine, Princess of Piedmont
Father William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
Mother Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim
Born 25 February 1675
Rheinfels, Hesse
Died 27 January 1720 (aged 44)
Sulzbach

Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg (Maria Eleonore Amalia; 25 February 1675 27 January 1720) was Landgravine of Hesse-Rotenburg by birth and was the Countess Palatine of Sulzbach by marriage.[1] She is an ancestor of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria.

Biography

Maria Eleonore was the second child of William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and is wife Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. She was an older sister of Ernest Leopold of Hesse-Rotenburg, future ruler of her native Hesse-Rotenburg.[1]

Engaged to Theodore Eustace of Sulzbach, the heir of the ruling Count Palatine of Sulzbach Christian Augustus, the couple were married on 9 June 1692 in Lobositz, Bohemia. The couple had some nine children three of which would have further progeny.[1]

She died in Sulzbach[1] at the age of 44.

Issue

  1. Countess Palatine Amalia Auguste Maria Anna of Sulzbach (7 June 1693 18 January 1762) died unmarried.
  2. Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach (2 November 1694 18 July 1729) married Elisabeth Auguste of Neuburg and had issue.
  3. Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach (16 May 1696 16 July 1776) Abbess of Essen.
  4. Countess Palatine Ernestine Elizabeth Johanna of Sulzbach (15 May 1697 14 April 1775) married William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels, no issue.
  5. Count Palatine John William Philip of Sulzbach (3 June 1698 12 April 1699) died in infancy.
  6. John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (23 January 1700 20 July 1733) married Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne and had issue; married Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg, no issue.
  7. Countess Palatine Elisabeth Eleonore Auguste of Sulzbach (19 April 1702 10 February 1704) died in infancy.
  8. Countess Palatine Anne Christine of Sulzbach (5 February 1704 12 March 1723) married Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont and had issue.
  9. Count Palatine Johann Wilhelm August of Sulzbach (21 August 1706 28 August 1708) died in infancy.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 van de Pas, Leo. "Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg". Genealogics .org. Retrieved 2010-03-29.