Katharina of Hanau (26 March 1525 – 20 August 1581) was the eldest daughter of
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
Philipp II (17 August 1501 in Hanau – 28 March 1529 in Hanau) was Count of Hanau-Münzenberg from 1512 until his death. He was the son of Count Reinhard IV and his wife, Katharina of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg.
Regency
Philipp II of Hanau ...
and Countess
Juliana of Stolberg
Juliana, Countess of Stolberg-Wernigerode (15 February 1506 in Stolberg, Saxony-Anhalt – 18 June 1580) was the mother of William the Silent, the leader of the successful Dutch Revolt against the Spanish in the 16th century.
Juliana was born ...
.
Marriage and issue
Katharina married in 1543 to Count Johann IV of
Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (d. 15 June 1581). In 1525, he was mentioned as a
canon
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in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
;
[See Dek, p. 229] he later reverted to the lay state. They had the following children:
# Herman I (d. 10 December 1581), succeeded his father 1581; married Countess Walpurga of
Bentheim-Steinfurt
Bentheim-Steinfurt was a historical county located in northwestern North Rhine-Westphalia in the region surrounding Steinfurt, Germany. Bentheim-Steinfurt was a partition of Bentheim-Bentheim, itself a partition of the County of Bentheim. Bentheim- ...
# Wilhelm (d. 1612), succeeded his father in 1581 in
Runkel
Runkel is a town on the river Lahn in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg an ...
and
Dierdorf
Dierdorf is a town in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Westerwald, approx. 20 km northeast of Neuwied, and 20 km north of Koblenz.
Dierdorf is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde
A Verb ...
, the so-called "Upper County of Wied"; married Countess
Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg (6 July 1564She was baptized on 17 July 1564 at Château de Lichtenberg – 24 March 1636 in Runkel) was the first child of Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg from his first marriage with Countess Ludowika ...
# Juliane (1545-1606), married
Reichard, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim
Reichard (25 July 1521 – 13 January 1598) was the Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim from 1569 until 1598.
Reichard was born in Simmern in 1521 to Johann II, Count Palatine of Simmern. In 1569 he succeeded his brother Georg as Count Palatine o ...
# Magdalena (d. 13 October 1606), married to Count Siegmund of Hardegg (d. 1599)
# Anna (d. 1590), married to Johann Wilhelm of Rogendorff (d. 1590)
# Katharina (27 May 1552 – 13 November 1584), married to
Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Philipp V of Hanau-Lichtenberg (21 February 1541, Bouxwiller – 2 June 1599, Niederbronn) was Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1590 until his death.
Life
Philipp V was the eldest son, heir and successor of Count Philipp IV of Hanau-Lichten ...
# Agnes (d. 1 May 1581), married to Gottfried IV Schenk IV of Limpurg-Speckfeld-Obersontheim (d. 1581)
Ancestors
References
* Adrian Willem Eliza Dek: ''De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster'', Zaltbommel, 1968
* 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
Footnotes
German countesses
House of Hanau
1525 births
1581 deaths
16th-century German people
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