Maria von Hanau-Lichtenberg

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Maria von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* around 1488; † 1526 ?) Was a daughter of Count Philip II of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Anna von Isenburg .

Pedigree of Countess Maria von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Great grandparents

Reinhard II. Von Hanau (* 1369; † 1451)
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Katharina von Nassau-Beilstein (*?; † 1459)

Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1433; † 1471)
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Elisabeth von Hohenlohe (* 1441; † 1488)

Dietrich von Isenburg-Büdingen (* 1400; † 1461)
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Elisabeth von Solms-Braunfels (* 1409; † 1450)

Johann II of Nassau- Wiesbaden-Idstein (* 1419; † 1480)
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Maria von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1418; † 1474)

Grandparents

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

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

parents

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

Maria von Hanau-Lichtenberg

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

Maria entered the Klarenthal monastery near Wiesbaden in 1499 , which cost her father 300 guilders . The choice of the Klarenthal Monastery, which was far from the ancestral lands of the Hanau-Lichtenberger, could be related to the fact that her aunt on her father's side, Margarethe (* May 15, 1463, † May 26, 1504), with Count Adolf III. von Nassau-Wiesbaden (born November 10, 1443 - † November 6, 1511), the Vogt of the monastery, was married. Maria was its abbess from 1512 to around 1525 . She gave up this office again during her lifetime. It is not entirely clear whether she died in 1526 or, because she no longer held an office, the sources are now silent about her. In any case, nothing has been handed down about her after 1525. She is also not listed in the monastery necrology , which suggests that she no longer lived there at the time of her death.

The background to the resignation could have been the massive financial difficulties of the monastery during this time, as well as the anti-monastery attitude of the beginning Reformation and the associated uprisings of the peasants .

literature

  • Friedrich Battenberg : Isenburg documents. Register of documents and copies of the princely archives in Birstein and Büdingen 974-1500 . Darmstadt 1976. 3 volumes. ISBN 3-88443-210-9 , 211-7, 212-5
  • Walter Czysz: Klarenthal near Wiesbaden. A women's monastery in the Middle Ages 1298 - 1559 . Wiesbaden 1987.
  • Hermann Langkabel: Klarenthal Monastery (= Repertories of the Hessian Main State Archive Wiesbaden, Section 18), Wiesbaden 1981.
  • Fr. Otto: Clarenthaler Studien I. The abbesses of the Clarenthal monastery near Wiesbaden , in: Nassauische Annalen 29, 1897/98, pp. 173–201.
  • 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.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

References

  1. ↑ Estimate based on the age of entry into the monastery and the number of siblings.
  2. ↑ Czysz, pp. 252f.
personal data
SURNAME Hanau-Lichtenberg, Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Count Philip II of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Anna von Isenburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1488
DATE OF DEATH around 1526