Philip Ludwig III. (Hanau-Munzenberg)

Philip Ludwig III. (* November 16 ^July / November 26,  1632 ^greg. In Hanau ; † November 12, 1641 in The Hague ) was the last "ruling" count from the main line of the Hanau-Münzenberg family .

childhood

Philipp Ludwig was born as the eldest son of Count Philipp Moritz von Hanau- Munzenberg and Princess Sibylle Christine von Anhalt-Dessau on 16/26. November 1632 born in Hanau and on the 3rd / 13th Baptized there January 1633.

Pedigree of Count Philipp Ludwig III. from Hanau-Munzenberg
Great grandparents	Philipp Ludwig I von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1553; † 1580) ⚭ Magdalene von Waldeck (* 1558; † 1599)	Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau (* 1533; † 1584) 3. ⚭ Charlotte von Bourbon-Montpensier (* 1546; † 1582)	Joachim Ernst von Anhalt-Zerbst-Bernburg and Köthen (* 1536; † 1586) 1. ⚭ Agnes von Barby (* 1540; † 1569)	Johann Casimir von Pfalz-Simmern (* 1543; † 1592) ⚭ Elisabeth of Saxony (* 1552; † 1590)
Grandparents	Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1576; † 1612) ⚭ Katharina Belgica of Orange-Nassau (* 1578; † 1640)		Johann Georg I of Anhalt-Dessau (* 1567; † 1618) ⚭ Dorothea von Pfalz-Simmern (* 1581; † 1631)
parents	Philipp Moritz von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1605; † 1638) ⚭ 1st Sibylle Christine von Anhalt-Dessau (* 1603; † 1686)
Philip Ludwig III.

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

In 1634, due to the political situation during the Thirty Years' War , the count's family had no choice but to flee, first to Metz , then via Chalons , Rouen and Amsterdam to the Orange-Nassau relatives in The Hague and Delft . Even when Count Philipp Moritz managed to return to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg in 1637, he left his son in the Netherlands with his grandmother, Princess Katharina Belgica, for security reasons .

Philip Ludwig III. occurred in 1638, still a minor , succeeded his deceased at the age of 33 years under the father's well- Testament of the Father and by the Imperial Court arranged sole guardianship of his mother. In contrast to their predecessors in the government, the latter managed to maintain a relaxed relationship with the branch line of the house, Hanau-Munzenberg-Schwarzenfels.

death

Philip Ludwig III. died as the last male representative of the main line Hanau-Munzenberg at the age of nine on November 12, 1641 in The Hague of rubella . His siblings had all died before him. His successor was Count Johann Ernst from the Hanau-Munzenberg-Schwarzenfels sidelines. He was a nephew of the deceased's grandfather, Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Munzenberg .

After his body had been transferred by water, Philipp Ludwig was finally buried on February 18, 1646 in the crypt of the Marienkirche in Hanau, together with his successor, who had also died in the meantime, and his mother, Ehrengard von Isenburg . His tin coffin was stolen in the Napoleonic chaos of war in 1812, and the body was reburied in a communal coffin together with the contents of other stolen coffins.

swell

1. ^ Letter from Count Philipp Moritz to his mother-in-law, in which he reports the birth of Philipp Ludwig: Archive of the Hanau History Society , K 28, 11 138, No. 536
2. ↑ The documentation on this is very poor and incomplete
3. ↑ Marburg State Archives, OIp v. 11/21 December 1641, line 10f

literature

• Reinhard Dietrich: The state constitution in the Hanauischen ( Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34 ), Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5 , p. 96.
• Jacobus Hinder Meier: funeral sermon , Strasbourg 1641st
• 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 Stadt und Land , 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

predecessor	Office	successor
Philipp Moritz	Count of Hanau-Munzenberg 1638–1641	Johann Ernst