Hedwig Luise of Hessen-Homburg
Hedwig Luise von Hessen-Homburg (* March 2, 1675 in Kassel , † March 14, 1760 in Varel ) was a princess of Hessen-Homburg and by marriage Countess von Schlieben .
Life
Hedwig Luise was a daughter of Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse-Homburg (1633–1708), the famous Prince of Homburg , from his second marriage to Luise Elisabeth (1646–1690), daughter of Duke Jakob of Courland .
At the age of 42 she married Count Adam Friedrich von Schlieben (1677–1752) from the Sanditten line on January 31, 1718 . The marriage with the Hessian general was considered a mesalliance and a scandal. Liselotte von der Pfalz wrote on March 13, 1718: If you let the princesses run around in Germany now, as in France, that was not the custom in my time - one has a great right to Cassel to be ill-satisfied with this marriage - the time it came about, as the scriptures say, that seven women will run after a man's trousers.
literature
- Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation p. 453
- Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans, Wilhelm Ludwig Holland (ed.): Letters from Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte von Orléans , Stuttgart 1874, p. 206
- Eduard Vehse, Joachim von Delbrück : Badische and Hessische Hofgeschichten , G. Müller, 1922
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| SURNAME | Hedwig Luise of Hessen-Homburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Countess von Schlieben |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1675 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1760 |
| Place of death | Varel |