Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel (27 January 1567,
Kassel
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– 21 November 1626,
Neunkirchen) was a princess of
Hesse-Kassel
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by birth and by marriage Countess of
Nassau-Saarbrücken.
Life
Anna Maria was the eldest daughter of Landgrave
William IV
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of Hesse-Kassel (1532–1592) from his marriage to
Sabine
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(1549–1581), daughter of Duke
Christopher
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of Württemberg.
She married on 8 June 1589 in Kassel Count
Louis II of Nassau-Weilburg (1565–1627). He had met Anna Maria during his
Grand Tour
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and had been well received by Anna Maria's father and her uncle
Louis IV. In 1590 the couple moved in with Louis's father,
Albert
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in
Ottweiler
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. In 1593 Louis took over the government in
Nassau-Weilburg
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.
Anna Maria helped organize the poor relief and set up a court pharmacy.
In 1626 Anna Maria fled from the
plague
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from
Saarbrücken
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to
Neunkirchen where she died of the plague. Anna Maria was buried in the crypt of the collegiate church of St. Arnual in Saarbrücken. A few years earlier, she had built an impressive tomb for three of her children and now she was buried in this tomb herself.
Offspring
From her marriage with Louis, Anna Maria had the following children:
*
William Louis (1590–1640), Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
: married in 1615 princess
Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach (1595-1651)
* Anna Sabine (1591–1593)
* Albrecht (1593–1595)
* Sophie Amalie (1594–1612)
* Georg Adolf (1595–1596)
* Philipp (1597–1621)
* Luise Juliane (1598–1622)
* Moritz (1599–1601)
* Karl Ernst (1600–1604)
* Marie Elisabeth (1602–1626)
: married in 1624 Count Frederick X of Leiningen-Dagsburg (1593-1651)
*
John
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* Secon ...
(1603–1677), Count of Nassau-Idstein
: married firstly in 1644 Princess Magdalene Sibylle of Baden-Durlach (1605-1644)
: married secondly in 1646 Countess Anna of Leiningen (1625-1668)
* Dorothea (1605–1620)
*
Ernest Casimir (1607–1655), Count of Nassau-Weilburg
: married in 1634 Countess Anna Maria of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1610-1656)
* Otto (1610–1632), Count of Nassau-Weilburg in Neuweilnau
References
* Fried Köllner
''Geschichte des vormaligen Nassau-sarbrück'schen Landes und seiner Regenten'', p. 307
External links
Entry for Anna Maria on the site*
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House of Hesse
1567 births
1626 deaths
Countesses of Nassau
Burials at Stiftskirche Sankt Arnual (Saarbrücken)