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, she married Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg. They had the following children: # Amalie (23 February 1540 in Bouxwiller – 1 May 1540) # Philip V (21 February 1541, Bouxwiller, – 1599) # Anna Sibylle (16 May 1542 – after 1590), married to Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl #

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Ancestors

References

* M. Goltzené: ''Aus der Geschichte des Amtes Buchsweiler'', in: ''Pay d’Alsace'', issue 111/112, p. 67. * 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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