Maria Franziska von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

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Maria Franziska von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (born May 18, 1633 in Konstanz , † March 7, 1702 in Lobositz ) is the second wife of Margrave Leopold Wilhelm von Baden .

Maria Franziska is the daughter of Ernst Egon VIII von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg , (1588-1635) and Countess Anna Maria von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* September 8, 1603; † August 23, 1652). Her brothers were the bishops Franz Egon and Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg .

Maria Franziska von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was her first marriage on June 3, 1651 in Düsseldorf to the Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm von Neuburg (1578–1653). She was his third wife. The marriage remained childless. Before her remarriage, she lived temporarily as a widow in Sinzig , where Baron Franz Dietrich von Hillesheim (1641–1681), father of the later Electoral Palatinate Minister Franz Wilhelm Caspar von Hillesheim , was her chief steward.

In her second marriage, she married the Margrave Leopold Wilhelm von Baden on February 23, 1666 .

The following children arose from this marriage:

  • Leopold Wilhelm (February 20, 1667 - April 11, 1716 Rastatt )
  • Karl Friedrich Ferdinand (* 1668; † 1680)
  • Katharina Franziska (died young)
  • Henriette (died young)
  • Anna (died young)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ PDF document on the history of the Count families von Hillesheim and von Spee, with detailed information on Countess Palatine Maria Franziska