Agatha Marie of Hanau

Countess Agatha Marie of Hanau-Lichtenberg (22 August 1599  23 May 1636) was a daughter of Count Johann Reinhard I (1569-1625) and his wife, Countess Maria Elisabeth of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1576-1605).

Agatha Marie of Hanau
Born(1599-08-22)22 August 1599
Buchsweiler
Died23 May 1636(1636-05-23) (aged 36)
Baden-Baden
BuriedRappoltsweiler
Noble familyHouse of Hanau
Spouse(s)George Frederick of Rappoltstein
FatherJohann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
MotherMaria Elisabeth of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein

Agatha Marie was born in Buchsweiler (now Bouxwiller). She died on 23 May 1636 in the city of Baden (now called Baden-Baden) and was buried in Rappoltsweiler (now called Ribeauvillé).

Marriage and issue

She married on 20 November [O.S. 10 November] 1623 to George Frederick of Rappoltstein (14 July 1593 – 30 August [O.S. 20 August] 1651 in Strasbourg). He was a son of Eberhard of Rappoltstein (12 March 1570 – 17 August 1637 in Strasbourg) and the Wild- and Rhinegravine Anna of Kyrburg-Mörchingen (1572 – 25 August 1608). After Agatha Marie's death, George Frederick would remarry in 1640 to Countess Elisabeth Charlotte of Solms-Sonnewalde.

From her marriage Agatha Marie had two children:

  • Stillborn son (18 September [O.S. 8 September] 1626).
  • Agatha Fredericka (23 July [O.S. 13 July] 162716 September [O.S. 6 September] 1627).

Ancestors

References

  • Reinhard Dietrich: Die Landesverfassung in dem Hanauischen, in the series Hanauer Geschichtsblätter, vol. 34, Hanau, 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
  • Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten
  • Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, in: Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Hanau, 1894
  • Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land, 3rd ed., Hanau, 1919, reprinted 1978


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