Charlotte Louise von Hanau-Munzenberg

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Countess Charlotte Louise von Hanau-Münzenberg (born August 10, 1597 in Windecken ; † July 15, 1649 in Kassel ) was the eldest daughter of Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1576; † 1612) and Princess Katharina Belgica (* 1578; † 1648), a daughter of Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau , the Schweigers.

Life

Charlotte Louise was born in Windecken. She remained unmarried. Private letters to members of her family have been passed down by her hand. On November 6, 1612, Emperor Matthias appointed the widow of Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Munzenberg, Katharina Belgia, to be the guardian of her eight children, namely her sons Philipp Moritz, Wilhelm Reinhardt, Heinrich Ludwig, Friedrich Ludwig and Jakob Hans. as well as the daughters Charlotte Luise, Amalia Elisabeth and Katharina Juliane.

Towards the end of the Thirty Years' War Charlotte Luise fled to her younger sister, Landgravine Amalie Elisabeth in Kassel, who reigned over her underage son there. In 1642 the male line of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg died out.

Charlotte Luise died shortly after the end of the war. Her remains were transferred to Hanau and buried there on August 28th in the crypt of the Hanau-Munzenberg house in St. Mary's Church in a wooden coffin lined with velvet and surrounded by a tin coffin. Landgrave Wilhelm VI. assigned Anton Wolf von Haxthausen to the funeral.

The tin coffin was stolen in the Napoleonic period in 1812. In 1849 the burial was reburied in a new coffin. A funeral sermon for Charlotte Louise by Konrad Henning is available.

ancestors

Pedigree of Countess Charlotte Louise von Hanau-Munzenberg
Great grandparents

Philip III von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1526; † 1561)
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Helena von Pfalz-Simmern (* 1532; † 1579)

Philip IV of Waldeck (*; †)
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Jutta von Isenburg († 1564)

Wilhelm von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1487; † 1559)
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Juliana zu Stolberg (*; †)

Louis III de Bourbon, duc de Montpensier (* 1513; † 1582)
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Jacqueline de Longwy Countess of Bar du Seine (* 1538; † 1561)

Grandparents

Philipp Ludwig I of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1553; † 1580)
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Magdalena von Waldeck (* 1558; † 1599)

Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau , the silent (* 1533; † 1584)
3. ∞
Charlotte von Bourbon-Montpensier (* 1546; † 1582)

parents

Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1576; † 1612)
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Katharina Belgica of Orange-Nassau (* 1578; † 1648)

Charlotte Louise

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

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno : Philipp Ludwig II., Count of Hanau and Rieneck, Lord of Munzenberg. An image of the regent drawn from archival and other sources for our time . Prague 1896.
  • Reinhard Dietrich: The state constitution in Hanau = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34 . Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
  • 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.
  • Reinhard Suchier: The grave monuments and coffins of the people buried in Hanau from the houses of Hanau and Hesse . In: Program of the Royal High School in Hanau. Hanau 1879. pp. 1-56.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, reprint 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg , holdings: 81st Hanau government A 33,11,3
  2. ↑ HStAM inventory document 58 No. 446.
  3. ^ HStAM inventory 4 f states H No. Hanau, Grafsch. 167.
  4. ^ Marienkirche Hanau (Reformed Church Hanau) , Worldhistory. Persons of world history.
  5. ↑ Suchier, Grabmonumente, p. 34
  6. ↑ Suchier, Grabmonumente, gives the archaeological findings when the coffin was opened (p. 34)
  7. ↑ Proof: Catalog of the Princely Stolberg-Stolberg collection of funeral sermons, Vol. 2, Leipzig 1928, No. 12829
personal data
SURNAME Hanau-Munzenberg, Charlotte Louise von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobles
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1597
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1649
Place of death kassel