Honor Guard of Isenburg

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Ehrengard von Isenburg (* October 1, 1577 ; † September 20, 1637 in Frankfurt am Main ), according to other sources also "Irmgard" was a daughter of Count Philip II of Isenburg-Büdingen (* May 23, 1526; † 5. April 1586) and Countess Irmgard von Solms , who died while giving birth.

Life

Ehrengard was married to Albrecht von Hanau-Münzenberg -Schwarzenfels (* 1579, † 1635) since August 16, 1604 . Your children were:

  • Albrecht (Albert) (* 1606; † 1614), buried in Schlüchtern Monastery . The burial was examined in 1938 and 1986 as part of archaeological excavations and then buried again.
  • Moritz (* 1606; † still as a child)
  • Katharina Elisabeth (* before or on September 14, 1607; † September 14, 1647), married to Count Wilhelm Otto von Isenburg-Birstein (* 1597; † 1667)
  • Johanna von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1610; † September 13, 1673 in Delft ), married to
    • 1.) Wild and Rhine Count Wolfgang Friedrich von Salm (* 1589; † December 24, 1638) since September 1637). The marriage remained childless.
    • 2.) Prince Manuel António of Portugal (* 1600 - † 1666) on December 14, 1646.
  • Magdalena Elisabeth (* March 28, 1611; † February 26, 1687), married to Reichserbschenk Georg Friedrich, Count of Limpurg in Speckfeld (* 1596; † 1651)
  • Johann Ernst (* June 13, 1613; † January 12, 1642), married to Princess Susanna Margarethe von Anhalt-Dessau (* August 25, 1610; † October 3, 1663), last ruling count from the Hanau-Münzenberg family
  • Ludwig Christoph (* 1614; † shortly after baptism)
  • Elisabeth (* 1615 ?; † 1665)
  • Marie Juliane (born January 15, 1617; † October 28, 1643), married to Count Johann Ludwig von Isenburg-Birstein (* 1622; † 1685)

Ehrengard, her husband and the family had to leave their residence, Schwarzenfels Castle , in 1633 due to the Thirty Years' War . They fled first to Worms and later to Strasbourg , where they faced great financial difficulties. Her husband died there in 1635. She then moved to Frankfurt am Main, where she died two years later.

rating

Her origins from the Isenburg house and the marriages of two of her daughters with members of the Isenburg house point to her husband's attempt to settle his father's inheritance and a share in his quarrel with his older brother, Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Munzenberg in the sovereignty, through this alliance to provide support from a neighboring count house.

death

Ehrengard died in exile on September 20, 1637 in Frankfurt am Main. Her remains were only transferred to Hanau on February 18, 1646 and buried there in the crypt of the Hanau-Münzenberg house in St. Mary's Church in a double wooden coffin lined with velvet and sealed with tar, which was surrounded by a tin coffin. The pewter coffin was stolen during the turmoil of the Napoleonic era in 1812. In 1879 the burial was reburied in a new coffin. There is a funeral sermon for Ehrengard.

literature

  • Fr. W. Cuno: Philipp Ludwig II., Count of Hanau and Rieneck, Lord of Munzenberg. A picture of a regent drawn from archival and other sources for our time , Prague 1896.
  • Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in the Hanauischen ( 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 Stadt und Land , 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cuno, p. 130
  2. ↑ Hessian State Archives Marburg : Oia 432 of June 4, 1623 line 39
  3. ↑ See: Reinhard Dietrich: Archaeological investigations in the Andreas chapel of the Schlüchtern monastery . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 30 (1988), pp. 327-334.
  4. ↑ Anders Dek, p. 30: February 1, 1637.
  5. ↑ Suchier, Grabmonumente, gives a detailed account of the archaeological findings when the coffin was opened in 1879 (p. 33)
  6. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, holdings: 81st Hanau Government, A 39.5 (3)
personal data
SURNAME Honor Guard of Isenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Count Philip II of Isenburg-Büdingen
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1577
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1637
Place of death Frankfurt am Main