Marie Hedwig Auguste of Sulzbach (german: Marie Hedwig Auguste von Sulzbach; born: 15 April 1650 in
Sulzbach; died: 23 November 1681 in
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
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) was a
Countess Palatine of Sulzbach by birth and by marriage,
Archduchess of Austria
The Archduchy of Austria (german: Erzherzogtum Österreich) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire and the nucleus of the Habsburg monarchy. With its capital at Vienna, the archduchy was centered at the Empire's southeastern peripher ...
and by her second marriage, Duchess of
Saxe-Lauenburg
The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (german: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, called ''Niedersachsen'' (Lower Saxony) between the 14th and 17th centuries), was a '' reichsfrei'' duchy that existed from 1296–1803 and again from 1814–1876 in the extreme so ...
.
Early life
Hedwig was a daughter of the Duke and Count Palatine
Christian August of Sulzbach (1622–1708) from his marriage to Countess Amalie of
Nassau-Siegen
Nassau-Siegen was a principality within the Holy Roman Empire that existed between 1303 and 1328, and again from 1606 to 1743. From 1626 to 1734, it was subdivided into Catholic and Protestant parts. Its capital was the city of Siegen, found ...
(1613–1669), daughter of Count
John VII of Nassau-Siegen.
First marriage
She was married on 3 June 1665
per cura in the court chapel of Sulzbach to Archduke
Sigismund Francis of Austria-Tyrol (1630–1665), who after his brother's unexpected death had resigned from his ecclesiastical positions in order to marry. The marriage was never consummated: while travelling to meet his bride, the Archduke fell seriously ill and died in
Innsbruck
Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...
twelve days after the marriage.
Second marriage
Hedwig's second marriage, in
Sulzbach on 9 April 1668, was with Duke
Julius Francis of Saxe-Lauenburg
Julius Francis (16 September 1641 – 30 September 1689) was duke of Saxe-Lauenburg between 1666 and 1689. He was a son of Duke Julius Henry and his third wife Anna Magdalena of Lobkowicz (1606 – 1668), daughter of Baron William ''the Younger'' ...
(1641–1689). Her father had a memorial stone erected in the Sulzbach parish church to commemorate the event.
[Georg Hager, Georg Lill: ''Bezirksamt Sulzbach'', vol 19, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1982, p. 94] Hedwig had been assured an annual income of at her first marriage; Julius Francis made a deal with the imperial court, in which Hedwig would receive a lump sum instead.
Death
Hedwig died in 1681 and was buried in the White Castle at
Ostrov (german: Schlackenwerth).
Issue
Hedwig from her second marriage had the following children:
* Anna Maria Theresia (1670–1671)
*
Anna Maria Franziska (1672–1741)
: married firstly in 1690 Count Palatine
Philip William of Neuburg (1668–1693)
: married secondly 1697 Grand Duke
Gian Gastone de' Medici
Gian Gastone de' Medici (born Giovanni Battista Gastone; 24 May 1671 – 9 July 1737) was the seventh and last Medicean Grand Duke of Tuscany.
He was the second son of Grand Duke Cosimo III and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans. His sister, Elect ...
of Tuscany (1671–1737)
*
Sybille (1675–1733)
: married in 1690 Margrave
Louis William of Baden-Baden (1655–1707)
References and sources
* ''Theologische Quartalschrift'', vol. 50, H. Laupp, 1868, p. 10
Digitized* Johann Samuel Ersch: ''Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste'', section 2 part 28, J. f. Gleditsch, 1851, p. 363
Footnotes
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House of Wittelsbach
1650 births
1681 deaths
17th-century German people
Countesses Palatine of Sulzbach
Duchesses of Saxe-Lauenburg
Austrian princesses