Margarethe von Dietz

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Margarethe von Dietz (born October 14, 1544 in Spangenberg ; † July 12, 1608 ) was the fourth child and eldest daughter of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous (1504–1567) from his wife Christina of Saxony on March 4, while his wife was still alive 1540 in Rotenburg an der Fulda to the left hand closed second marriage with the then 18-year-old Margarethe von der Saale (1522 to 1566), a maid of honor to his sister Elisabeth , Hereditary Princess of Saxony.

Life

In his will of 1562, Landgrave Philipp gave her and her seven brothers from this connection the title "Born from the House of Hesse, Counts of Dietz and Lords of Lißberg and Bickenbach". (A second daughter, Anna, had already died in 1558 at the age of only one year.) He gave the brothers the lordships and offices of Umstadt , Bickenbach and Lißberg , Schloss and Amt Ulrichstein , Stadt and in common ownership and with full sovereign sovereignty Office Schotten , Castle and Office Stornfels , City, Castle and Office Homburg and the Hessian part of the village of Dehrn in the old County of Dietz . Margarethe was resigned with a financial endowment; She received a further settlement when the last of her brothers who were still living in freedom died in 1575 and her half-brothers, the Landgraves Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel , Ludwig IV of Hesse-Marburg , Philip II of Hesse-Rheinfels and Georg I. . of Hessen-Darmstadt seized the possession of the Counts of Dietz.

After her mother's death, Margarethe was first accepted into the household of her sister-in-law, Landgravine Sabine (1549–1581), wife of her half-brother Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel, as a lady-in-waiting . The following year she married on December 31, 1567 Kassel Count Johann (Hans) Bernard of New Eberstein (* 26 June 1545 † 11 April 1574), son of Count John James I to Neu-Eberstein (1517 –1574) and his wife Barbara von Daun-Oberstein († 1546). Her husband died at the age of 28. A little more than three years later, on August 10, 1577, she married the Pomeranian Count Stephan Heinrich von Eberstein (* April 10, 1543; † 1613), son of Count Georg von Everstein and his wife Walburga von Bassano-Weisskirchen.

progeny

Children from her first marriage with Johann Bernhard von Neu-Eberstein were:

  • Philip III von Eberstein (approx. 1570–1609)
  • Barbara
  • Johann Jakob II. Von Neu-Eberstein (1574–1637 / 38)

The children came from the second marriage with Stephan Heinrich von Eberstein:

  • Sabine Hedwig von Everstein-Quarkenburg (1579–1631)
  • Walpurgis of Everstein-Quarkenburg (1580–1613)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Philip's four sons, born in line with their status, were very reluctant to accept this diminution of their “legitimate” inheritance and, in May 1568, achieved that Emperor Maximilian II confirmed the refusal of the full sovereignty of the Counts of Dietz.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Margarethe von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION countess
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH Spangenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1608