Anna of Hesse
{{Short description|Holy Roman Empire princess (1529–1591)}}
{{About|the daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse|the consort of Frederick Francis II|Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine}}
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| name = Anna of Hesse
| image = Anna, 1529-1591, prinsessa av Hessen-Kassel, pfalzgrevinna av Zweibrücken - Nationalmuseum - 15765.tif
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| house = House of Hesse
| father = Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse
| mother = Christine of Saxony
| spouse = {{marriage|Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken|24 February 1544|11 June 1569|end=d.}}
| issue = {{plainlist|
- Countess Palatine Christine
- Philip Louis, Count Palatine of Neuburg
- John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
- Countess Palatine Anna
- Countess Palatine Elisabeth
- Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
- Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein
- Barbara, Countess of Oettingen-Oettingen
- Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
- Maria Elisabeth, Countess of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg
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| issue-link = #Issue
| birth_date = {{birth_date|1529|10|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Kassel
| death_date = {{death date and age|1591|7|10|1529|10|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = Meisenheim
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Anna of Hesse (26 October 1529, Kassel – 10 July 1591, Meisenheim) was a princess of Hesse by birth and marriage Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken.
Early life
Anna was a daughter of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse (1501–1567) from his marriage to Princess Christine of Saxony (1505–1549), a daughter of Duke George of Saxony.
Biography
She married Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (1526–1569) on 24 February 1544. After the death of her husband, Anna and her brother William and Elector Palatine Louis VI jointly acted as guardians for her children. William was also the executor of Wolfgang's testament.
Around 1590, Anna founded the St. Anne's churchyard in Heidelberg. In 1596, a stone monument in her honor was erected in this churchyard. When the churchyard was closed in 1845, the monument was moved to the Bergfriedhof churchyard.
Anna died in 1591 and was buried in the Lutheran Church of Meisenheim Castle.
Issue
Anna was constantly pregnant during much of her marriage, giving birth to thirteen children in just eighteen years. Ten of them lived to adulthood:
- Christine (1546–1619)
- Philip Louis (1547–1614), Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg
- :married in 1574 princess Anna of Cleves (1552–1632)
- John I (1550–1604), Count Palatine of Palatinate-Zweibrücken
- : married in 1579 princess Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1553–1633)
- Dorothy Agnes (1551–1552), died in infancy
- Elizabeth (1553–1554), died in infancy
- Anna (1554–1576)
- Elizabeth (1555–1625)
- Otto Henry (1556–1604), Count Palatine of Palatinate-Sulzbach
- : married in 1582 duchess Marie Dorothea of Württemberg (1559–1639)
- Frederick (1557–1597), Count Palatine of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein
- : married in 1587 duchess Catherine Sophie of Legnica (1561–1608)
- Barbara (1559–1618)
- : married in 1591 Count Gottfried of Oettingen-Oettingen (1554–1622)
- Charles I (1560–1600), Count Palatine of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
- : married in 1586 duchess Maria Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1570–1649)
- Maria Elisabeth (1561–1629)
- : married in 1585 Count Emich XII of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg (1562–1607)
- Susanna (1564–1565), died in infancy
Ancestors
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| 1= 1. Anna of Hesse
| 2= 2. Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse
| 3= 3. Christine of Saxony
| 4= 4. William II, Landgrave of Hesse
| 5= 5. Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
| 6= 6. George, Duke of Saxony
| 7= 7. Barbara Jagiellon
| 8= 8. Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse
| 9= 9. Matilda of Württemberg-Urach
| 10= 10. Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Güstrow
| 11= 11. Sophie of Pomerania-Wolgast
| 12= 12. Albert III, Duke of Saxony
| 13= 13. Sidonie of Poděbrady
| 14= 14. Casimir IV Jagiellon
| 15= 15. Elisabeth of Austria
| 16= 16. Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse
| 17= 17. Anna of Saxony
| 18= 18. Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach
| 19= 19. Mechthild of the Palatinate
| 20= 20. Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburg
| 21= 21. Dorothea of Brandenburg
| 22= 22. Eric II, Duke of Pomerania
| 23= 23. Sophia of Pomerania-Stolp
| 24= 24. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony
| 25= 25. Margaret of Austria
| 26= 26. George of Poděbrady
| 27= 27. Kunigunde of Sternberg
| 28= 28. Władysław II Jagiełło
| 29= 29. Sophia of Halshany
| 30= 30. Albert II of Germany
| 31= 31. Elizabeth of Luxembourg
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References
- Friedrich Rehm: [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3QAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA82&dq=Anna+Hessen+Wolfgang+Pfalz&lr=&hl=de Handbuch der Geschichte beider Hessen p. 82]
- Christoph von Rommel: [https://books.google.com/books?id=c4AAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA609&dq=Anna+Hessen+Wolfgang+Pfalz&lr=&hl=de Geschichte von Hessen p. 609 ff]
External links
- http://www.s197410804.online.de/Wittelsbacher/Anna.htm{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:16th-century German nobility
Category:16th-century German women
Category:Countesses Palatine of Zweibrücken