Agatha Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg
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| name = Agatha Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg
| image = Hanau-Lichtenberg (1547).svg
| image_size = 150px
| caption = Coat-of-arms of Hanau-Lichtenberg.
| noble family = House of Hanau
| father = Philip Wolfgang, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
| mother = Johanna of Oettingen
| spouse = Leopold Louis, Count Palatine of Veldenz
| birth_date = {{birth date|1632|9|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Buchsweiler, now Bouxwiller
| death_date = {{death date and age|1681|12|5|1632|9|23|df=yes}}
| death_place = Straßburg, now Strasbourg
| burial_place = Lützelstein, now La Petite-Pierre
}}
Countess Agatha Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg (23 September 1632 in Buchsweiler (now Bouxwiller in France) – 5 December 1681 in Straßburg (now Strasbourg, in France); buried in Lützelstein (now La Petite-Pierre, France)) was a daughter of Count Philip Wolfgang (1595-1641) and his wife, Countess Johanna of Oettingen (1602-1639).
Agatha Christine died on 5 December 1681 and, like many of her children and later her husband, she was buried in the parish church of Lützelstein.
Marriage and issue
She married on 4 July 1648 in Bischweiler to Count Palatine Leopold Louis of Veldenz (1 February 1623 – {{OldStyleDate|29 September|1694|19 September}} in Strasbourg; also buried in Lützelstein) and had the following children:
- unnamed daughter (1649-1649 in Lauterecken)
- Anne Sophie (20 May 1650 in Lauterecken – 12 June 1706 in Morchingen (now Morhange, France), also buried in Lützelstein)
- Gustav Philip (17 July 1651 in Lauterecken – 24 August 1679, allegedly murdered in Lauterecken; buried in the Lutheran church in Lauterecken)
- Elisabeth Johanna (22 February 1653 in Lauterecken – 5 February 1718 in Morchingen; buried in Diemeringen), married on 27 July 1669 to Wild- and Rhinegrave John XI of Salm-Kyrburg (d. 16 September 1688 in Flonheim; buried in the town church in Kirn)
- Christine (29 March 1654 in Lauterecken – 18 February 1655 in Lützelstein)
- Christine Louise (11 November 1655 in Lützelstein – 14 April 1656, ibid.)
- Christian Louis (5 October 1656 in Lützelstein – 15 April 1658, ibid.)
- Dorothea (16 January 1658 in Lützelstein – 17 August 1723 in Strasbourg; buried in the parish church of Lützelstein), married on 10 July 1707 in Zweibrücken to Count Palatine Gustav of Kleeburg and Zweibrücken (1670-1731), divorced on 23 April 1723
- Leopold Louis (14 March 1659 in Lützelstein – 17 March 1660 in Lützelstein; buried in Lützelstein)
- Charles George (27 May 1660 in Lützelstein – 3 July 1686 outside Budapest)
- Agatha Eleanore (29 June 1662 in Lützelstein – 1 January 1664, ibid.)
- Augustus Leopold (22 December 1663 in Lützelstein – 9 September 1689 outside Mainz), was a colonel in the Bavarian army and was buried in the St. John's church in Hanau
Ancestors
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| 1= 1. Agatha Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg
| 2= 2. Philip Wolfgang, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1595–1641)
| 3= 3. Johanna of Oettingen (1602–1639)
| 4= 4. Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1568–1625)
| 5= 5. Maria Elisabeth of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1576–1605)
| 6= 6. Louis Eberhard of Öttingen-Öttingen (1577-1634)
| 7= 7. Margarethe von Erbach (1576–1636)
| 8= 8. Philip V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1541–1599)
| 9= 9. Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (1540–1569)
| 10= 10. Wolfgang of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1546–1610)
| 11= 11. Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg (1547–1643)
| 12= 12. Gottfried of Öttingen (1554–1622)
| 13= 13. Johanna of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1557–1585)
| 14= 14. George III, Count of Erbach-Breuberg (1548–1605)
| 15= 15. Anna of Solms (1557–1586)
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References
- Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, new series, vol. I.1, table 103
- 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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