Johanna von Hanau-Lichtenberg (1507–1572)

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Johanna von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Epitaph of Count Wilhelm IV. Von Eberstein and his wife Countess Johanna von Hanau-Lichtenberg in the St. Jakobskirche in Gernsbach

Johanna von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1507 ; † January 27, 1572 at Eberstein Castle near Gernsbach ) was the eldest daughter of Count Philipp III. von Hanau-Lichtenberg (October 18, 1482 - May 15, 1538) and the Margravine Sibylle von Baden (April 26, 1485 - July 10, 1518).

ancestry

Pedigree of Countess Johanna von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Great grandparents

Philipp I von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1480)
∞
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474)

Ludwig II of Isenburg-Büdingen (* 1422; † 1511)
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Maria von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (* 1438; † 1480)

Karl I von Baden († 1475)
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Katharina von Österreich (* 1424; † 1493), daughter of Duke Ernst the Iron and Duchess Margarethe von Pommern-Stolp

Philipp the Younger von Katzenelnbogen (* 1427; † 1453)
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Ottilie von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1437; † 1493)

Grandparents

Philip II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1462; † 1504)
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Anna von Isenburg -Büdingen († 1522)

Christoph I of Baden-Sponheim (* 1453; † 1527)
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Ottilie von Katzenelnbogen (* 1451; † 1517)

parents

Philip III von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1482; † 1538)
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Sibylle von Baden -Sponheim (* 1485; † 1518)

Johanna von Hanau-Lichtenberg

For the family cf. Main article: Hanau (noble family)

Marriage and offspring

Johanne married Count Wilhelm IV of Eberstein on November 6, 1522 (* May 3, 1497 - July 1, 1562), 1546–1555 President of the Imperial Court of Justice . She and her husband are mentioned several times in the Zimmerische Chronik . From this marriage emerged:

Daughter Sibylla (1531–1589)
∞ Johanna de Bailleul , Dame de Douxlieu († August 12, 1563)
∞ January 20, 1564 Katharina zu Stolberg-Rosenberg († 1598)
  • Anna (* 1524; † 1546)
  • Elisabeth (* 1526; † 1555)
  • Felizitas (* 1527; † 1565), abbess of the Gerresheim canonical monastery
  • Kunigunde (* 1528; † 13 July 1575), married to Count Froben Christoph von Zimmer (* 1519; † 1566)
  • Wilhelm (* 1529 - † June 3, 1561), canon in Strasbourg (later also cathedral cantor and cathedral dean) and Cologne
  • Sibylla (* 1531; † 1589), married to Count Markus Fugger (* 1529; † April 18, 1597).
  • Bruno (* 1532; †)
  • Otto (* 1533 - † December 4, 1576), drowned in Antwerp . He was first canon in Strasbourg and then became secular, later imperial councilor and colonel.
  • Anna (* 1536; † 1537)

death

Johanna was buried on January 29, 1572 in the parish church of Gernsbach . The epitaph that represents her and her husband has been preserved there.

literature

  • M. Goltzené: From the history of the office Buchsweiler . In: Pay d'Alsace , issue 111/112.
  • Klaus Lötzsch: Historical relations of the county Hanau-Lichtenberg to Swabia in the 16th century. Dynastic connection to the Fugger family - Count Philipp IV at the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1566. In: Babenhäuser Mosaik = Babenhausen once and now 20. Babenhausen 1990. pp. 7-19.
  • Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables : Family tables for the history of European states . NF Vol. 12. 1992. Plate 29.
  • 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.
  • Zimmerische Chronicle
  • Georg H. Krieg von Hochfelden, p. 161 History of the Counts of Eberstein in Swabia Philipp von Eberstein

References

  1. ↑ Goltzené, p. 65
  2. ↑ Page: De Zimmerische Chronik 2 504.jpg , Page: De Zimmerische Chronik 3 432.jpg , Page: De Zimmerische Chronik 3 457.jpg , Page: De Zimmerische Chronik 4 265.jpg .
  3. ↑ Lötzsch, p. 7ff.
  4. ^ Siegfried Diemer, Evang [elische] St. Jakobskirche Gernsbach (a tour) = Schnell Kunstführer 1171, Munich 1984, pp. 14, 16; Lötzsch, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Hanau-Lichtenberg, Johanna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johanna von Eberstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Hanau and Eberstein
DATE OF BIRTH 1507
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1572
Place of death Eberstein