Magdalene von Waldeck

Magdalene von Waldeck (* 1558 - † August 1599 ) was a daughter of Count Philipp IV von Waldeck -Wildungen (* 1493; † 1574) and his wife Jutta von Isenburg-Grenzau († 1564). So she came from the Waldeck house .

Marriages and offspring

First marriage

Her first marriage to Philipp Ludwig I von Hanau-Munzenberg may be a deliberate departure from her groom against the politically dominant influence of his guardian, Count Johann VI. from Nassau-Dillenburg. So the marriage took place against the initial resistance of the Nassau guardian, who would have preferred a marriage in the vicinity of his own clan. The Counts of Waldeck were more oriented towards the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Archdiocese of Mainz .

Magdalene married Count Philipp Ludwig I of Hanau-Münzenberg on February 2 or 6, 1576 . From this marriage emerged:

1. Philipp Ludwig II (born November 18, 1576 - † August 9, 1612)
2. Juliane (born October 13, 1577 - † December 2, 1577), buried in the choir of the Marienkirche in Hanau
3. Wilhelm (born August 26, 1578; † June 14, 1579), buried in the choir of the Marienkirche in Hanau
4. Albrecht von Hanau-Münzenberg -Schwarzenfels (Albert) (* November 12, 1579 - † December 19, 1635)

Second marriage

On the occasion of her second marriage, she adopted the Reformed creed of her second husband. She moved with him to Dillenburg , taking the two surviving children from her first marriage with her. So especially the Government successor arrived in Hanau-Münzenberg Philipp Ludwig II., At an early stage among Reformed influence what it coined and that caused it in 1595 in Hanau-Münzenberg in a "second Reformation" the reformed version of the Reformation introduced as mandatory.

On November 24, 1581 with Count Johann VII of Nassau-Siegen . From this marriage emerged:

1. Johann Ernst (* 1582; ​​† 1617)
2. John VIII , the younger; (* 1583- † 1638)
3. Elisabeth (* 1584; † 1661) ⚭ Count Christian von Waldeck
4. Adolf (* 1586; † 1608)
5. Juliane (* 1587; † 1643) ⚭ Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel
6. Anna Maria (* 1589; † 1620) ⚭ Johann Adolf von Daun-Falkenstein (* 1582; ​​† 1623)
7. Johann Albrecht (* 1590; † 1593)
8. Wilhelm (* August 13, 1592; † July 18, 1642) ⚭ Christine zu Erbach
9. Anna Johanna (* 1594; † 1636) ⚭ Johann Wolfart van Brederode (* 1599; † 1655)
10. Friedrich Ludwig (* 1595; † 1600)
11. Magdalena (* 1596; † 1661)
12. Johann Friedrich (* 1597)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Menk, pp. 154f and G. Schmidt, p. 548
2. ^ Varnhagen, Vol. 2, p. 71.

literature

• Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in the Hanauischen = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
• Jacob Christoph Carl Hoffmeister: Historical-genealogical handbook on all counts and princes of Waldeck and Pyrmont since 1228 . Kassel 1883.
• Gerhard Menk : Philipp Ludwig I. von Hanau-Münzenberg (1553-1580). Educational history and politics of an imperial count in the second half of the 16th century . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 32 (1982), pp. 127–163.
• Georg Schmidt: Der Wetterauer Grafenverein = publications of the historical commission for Hessen 52. Marburg 1989. ISBN 3-7708-0928-9
• 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.
• Johann Adolf Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeck country and regent history . Arolsen 1853.
• Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.