Sibylle Christine of Anhalt-Dessau

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Princess Sibylle Christine von Anhalt-Dessau (born June 10, 1603 in Dessau ; † February 11, 1686 in Hanau ) was a daughter of Prince Johann Georg I of Anhalt-Dessau (* 1567; † 1618) and Dorothea von Pfalz-Simmern .

biography

First marriage

Sibylle Christine married Count Philipp Moritz (* 1605; † 1638) von Hanau-Münzenberg on December 16, 1627 . From this marriage emerged:

  1. Sibylle Mauritania (November 2, 1630 - March 24, 1631)
  2. Adophine (born October 31, 1631 - † December 22, 1631)
  3. Philip Ludwig III. (* November 26, 1632; † November 12, 1641), followed his father in the government of the county of Hanau-Munzenberg
  4. Johann Heinrich (born May 3, 1634 - † October 28, 1634, in Metz)
  5. Louise Eleonore Belgica (born March 3, 1636 in Metz, † in the same year in The Hague , buried there)

After the death of her first husband, she took over the reign of her underage son, Philipp Ludwig III. After he too died in 1641, Sibylle Christine moved into her widow's seat, Steinau Castle in Steinau an der Straße .

Second marriage

Philip Ludwig III. was inherited by Count Johann Ernst (* 1613; † 1642) von Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels. This was the last male member of the Hanau-Munzenberg family. He died in 1642. He was followed by Friedrich Casimir von Hanau (* 1623; † 1685) from the Hanau-Lichtenberg Lutheran line of the Hanau family . He took office in a financially precarious situation for the county due to the Thirty Years' War . As a countess widow, Sibylle Christine was able to make considerable demands on the county. In order to avoid this and the necessary financial resources for a "new" wife, she was married on May 13, 1647 to Friedrich Casimir, who was 20 years younger and now of legal age. The solution had the advantage that Sibylle Christine was of Reformed faith and this marriage reassured the Reformed subjects, who formed a vast majority in the County of Hanau-Münzenberg and were suspicious of the Lutheran Friedrich Casimir. The marriage remained childless. It was marked by further differences, probably also because Friedrich Casimir, with his constantly high need for money, also fell back on his wife's assets.

widow

After the death of her second husband, Sibylle Christine withdrew again to her widow's residence, Steinau Castle, in 1685. She died on February 11, 1686 as the last member of the Reformed denomination of the Hanau Count House, which hit the Reformed majority of the subjects hard. A funeral sermon appeared at her burial in a tin coffin on March 25, 1686 in the family crypt of the Marienkirche in Hanau .

literature

  • Johann Adam Bernhard : History of the Lords and Counts of Hanau , in: Hanauisches Magazin (40), p. 355ff.
  • Fr. W. Cuno, Memory Book of German Princes and Princesses of the Reformed Confession , Barmen 1883.
  • AWE Dek: Count Johann the Middle of Nassau-Siegen and his 25 children . Rijswijk 1962.
  • Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in Hanau. The position of the lords and counts in Hanau-Münzenberg based on the archival sources (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 34). Hanau History Association, Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5 .
  • 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.
  • Reinhard Suchier: The grave monuments and coffins of the people buried in Hanau from the houses of Hanau and Hesse . In: Program of the Royal High School in Hanau. Hanau 1879. pp. 1-56.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

References

  1. ↑ Deviating: Dek, p. 29: * July 11, 1603; † February 21, 1686
  2. ↑ According to Zimmermann, p. 681, May 1, 1634 is mentioned elsewhere, but this is said to be incorrect
  3. ^ According to Bernhard, p. 360: November 10, 1634
  4. ↑ Suchier, Grabmonumente, quoted from the church book of the Marienkirche in Hanau: "So the Reformed rule has completely died out, we no longer have a Reformed Lord, but still a Reformed God, I mean, who will be on our side" .
  5. ↑ Johann hoe [Hakenius] (* 1644; † 1701): [funeral sermon] . Hanau (with Abraham Aubry ) 1687. Evidence: Catalog of funeral sermons and other funeral pamphlets in the Hessian State Archives Marburg = Marburg Personalschriftforschung 14. Sigmaringen 1992. The author was the court and town preacher, first Reformed pastor and chairman of the Reformed consistory in Hanau.
personal data
SURNAME Sibylle Christine of Anhalt-Dessau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sibylla Christina von Hanau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Hanau
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1686
Place of death Hanau