Eleonore von Fürstenberg

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Eleonore von Fürstenberg (born October 11, 1523 , † June 23, 1544 in Buchsweiler ) was a daughter of Count Friedrich III. from Fürstenberg . On August 22, 1538, at the age of 14, she married Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Heiligenberg . From this marriage emerged:

  1. Amalie (born February 23, 1540, Buchsweiler; † May 1, 1540)
  2. Philipp V (born February 21, 1541, Buchsweiler; † 1599)
  3. Anna Sibylle (* May 16, 1542; † after 1590), married to Ludwig von Fleckenstein
  4. Johanna (born May 23, 1543, Buchsweiler; † December 5, 1599 in Babenhausen, buried there), married to Wolfgang von Isenburg-Büdingen-Ronneburg , divorced in 1573
  5. Eleonore (born April 26, 1544, Buchsweiler; † January 6, 1585), married to Albrecht von Hohenlohe

Eleonore von Fürstenberg was convinced as a Protestant and prepared her husband for the introduction of the Reformation . She died in childbed at only 20 years of age and was buried in the St. Adelphi Abbey in Neuweiler .

literature

  • M. Goltzené: From the history of the office Buchsweiler . In: Pays d'Alsace, issue 111/112, p. 67.
  • Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanauer Geschichtsverein on its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3. Edition. Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

proof

  1. ↑ In a document stored in the Darmstadt State Archives under the signature D7: 1/1, the 29th June 1544 is stated differently.
  2. ^ Joseph Schäuble: History of the Baden Hanauerland . Walsch & Vogel, 1855, p. 50
  3. ↑ Zimmerische Chronik , Vol. 3, p. 440 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Fürstenberg, Eleonore von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eleonore von Hanau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1523
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1544
Place of death Bouxwiller (Bas-Rhin)