Anna Maria of Hessen-Kassel

Anna Maria von Hessen-Kassel (born January 27, 1567 in Kassel ; † November 21, 1626 in Neunkirchen ) was a princess of Hessen-Kassel and by marriage Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken .

Life

Anna Maria was the eldest daughter of Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel (1532–1592) from his marriage to Sabine (1549–1581), daughter of Duke Christoph von Württemberg .

On June 8, 1589, she married Count Ludwig II of Nassau-Weilburg (1565–1627) in Kassel , who met Anna Maria during his Grand Tour and was welcomed benevolently by Anna Maria's father and her uncle Ludwig . In 1590 the couple moved to live with Ludwig's father Albrecht in Ottweiler and in 1593 Ludwig took over the government in Nassau-Weilburg .

Anna Maria did a great job of caring for the poor and set up a court pharmacy.

In 1626 Anna Maria fled the plague from Saarbrücken to Neunkirchen, where she died from it. Anna Maria is buried in the crypt of the collegiate church Sankt Arnual in Saarbrücken, where she had an impressive tomb erected for three of her children a few years earlier, in which her tomb was later added.

progeny

Grave of Countess Anna Maria in the collegiate church St. Arnual , Saarbrücken , next to her children Philipp († 1621), Dorothea († 1620) and Juliana († 1622)

Anna Maria had the following fourteen children from their marriage:

• Wilhelm Ludwig (1590–1640), Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken

⚭ 1615 Margravine Anna Amalie of Baden-Durlach (1595–1651)

• Anna Sabine (1591–1593)
• Albrecht (1593–1595)
• Sophie Amalie (1594-1612)
• Georg Adolf (1595–1596)
• Philip (1597-1621)
• Luise Juliane (1598–1622)
• Moritz (1599–1601)
• Ernst Karl (1600–1604)
• Marie Elisabeth (1602–1626)

⚭ 1624 Count Friedrich X. von Leiningen-Dagsburg (1593–1651)

• Johann (1603–1677), Count of Nassau-Idstein

⚭ 1. 1629 Margravine Sibylle Magdalene of Baden-Durlach (1605–1644)

⚭ 2. 1646 Countess Anna von Leiningen-Dagsburg (1625–1668)

• Dorothea (1605-1620)
• Ernst Casimir (1607–1655), Count of Nassau-Weilburg

⚭ 1634 Countess Anna Maria von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg (1610–1656)

• Otto (1610–1632), Count of Nassau-Weilburg in Neuweilnau

literature

• Joachim Conrad:  LUDWIG II. Called Felix von Nassau-Saarbrücken. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 856-862.
• Friederich Köllner : History of the former Nassau-Sarbrück country and its regents , p. 307

Web links

• Nassau-Saarbrücken Anna Maria von in Saarland Biographies
• Nassau-Weilburg, Anna Maria Countess of. Hessian biography. (As of January 27, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).