Agatha Christine from Hanau-Lichtenberg

Countess Agatha Christine von Hanau-Lichtenberg (born September 23, 1632 in Buchsweiler ; † December 5, 1681 in Strasbourg , buried in Lützelstein ) was a daughter of Count Philipp Wolfgang (* 1595; † 1641) and Countess Johanna von Öttingen (* 1602; † 1639).

Pedigree of Countess Agatha Christine von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Great grandparents	Count Philipp V of Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599) ∞ Countess Palatine Margarethe Ludowika of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (* 1540; † 1569)	Count Wolfgang zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1546; † 1610) ∞ Countess Magdalena von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1547; † 1643)	Count Gottfried von Öttingen (* 1554; † 1622) ∞ Countess Johanna zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1557; † 1585)	George III von Erbach (* 1548; † 1605) ∞ Countess Anna zu Solms (* 1557; † 1586)
Grandparents	Count Johann Reinhard I of Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1568; † 1625) ∞ Countess Maria Elisabeth zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1576; † 1605)		Count Ludwig Eberhard von Öttingen-Öttingen (* 1577; † 1634) ∞ Countess Margarethe von Erbach (* 1576; † 1636)
parents	Count Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1595; † 1641) ∞ Countess Johanna von Öttingen-Öttingen (* 1602; † 1639)
Agatha Christine

For the family cf. Main article: Lords and Counts of Hanau

She married on July 4, 1648 in Bischweiler Count Palatine Leopold Ludwig von Pfalz-Veldenz-Lützelstein (* February 1, 1623, † September 19, 1694 [according to the Julian calendar ] in Strasbourg, buried in the parish church of Lützelstein). Numerous children resulted from the marriage:

1. NN daughter († 1649 in Lauterecken )
2. Anna Sophie (* May 20, 1650 in Lauterecken; † May 20, 1706 in Mörchingen , today: Morhange ), buried in the parish church of Lützelstein
3. Gustav Philipp (* July 17, 1651 in Lauterecken; † August 24, 1679, ibid), murdered and allegedly buried in the Lutheran parish church in Lauterecken
4. Elisabeth Johanna (born February 22, 1653 in Lauterecken, † February 5, 1718 in Mörchingen), buried in Diemeringen . She married on July 27, 1669 Wild- and Rheingraf Johann XI. von Salm -Kyrburg († September 16, 1688 in Flonheim ), buried in the town church in Kirn .
5. Christine (born March 29, 1654 in Lauterecken, † February 18, 1655 in Lützelstein)
6. Christine Louise (born November 11, 1655 in Lützelstein; † April 14, 1656, ibid)
7. Christian Ludwig (born October 5, 1656 in Lützelstein; † April 15, 1658, ibid)
8. Dorothea (born January 16, 1658 in Lützelstein, † August 17, 1723 in Strasbourg), buried in the parish church of Lützelstein. She married on July 10, 1707 in Zweibrücken, Count Palatine Gustav Samuel Leopold of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg (* 1670, † 1731). The marriage was divorced on April 23, 1723.
9. Leopold Ludwig (born March 14, 1659 in Lützelstein; † March 17, 1660, ibid), buried in Lützelstein
10. Karl Georg (born May 27, 1660 in Lützelstein; † July 4, 1686, fell in front of the stove )
11. Agnes Eleonore (born June 29, 1662 in Lützelstein; † January 1, 1664, ibid)
12. August Leopold (born December 22, 1663 in Lützelstein; † September 9, 1689, died near Mainz ). He was Colonel in kurbayrischen services and was in the St. John's Church in Hanau buried.

Agatha Christine, like many of her children and later her husband, was also buried in the parish church of Lützelstein.

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables : Family tables for the history of European states. NF I.1, plate 103.
• Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
• Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country. 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.