Herman Fortunatus, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (23 January 1595 in
Rastatt
Rastatt () is a town with a Baroque core, District of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Murg river, above its junction with the Rhine and has a population of around 50,000 (2011). Rastatt was an ...
– 4 January 1665 in
Kastellaun
Kastellaun is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality.
Geography
Location
The town lies in the eastern Hunsrück ...
) was
Margrave
Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom. That position became hereditary in certain feudal families in the Emp ...
of
Baden-Rodemachern. He was a son of Margrave
Edward Fortunatus
Edward Fortunatus (or in German Eduard Fortunat) of Baden (17 September 1565 – 8 June 1600) was Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern and Baden-Baden.
Life and work
Born in London, Edward was the son of Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemacher ...
and
Maria of Eicken
Maria van der Eycken, Lady of Rivieren (1571 in Brussels – 21 April 1636 in Porta Angelica Monastery, Flaumbach Valley, near Treis-Karden) was the wife of the Margrave Edward Fortunatus of Baden-Baden.
Early life
She was born in Brussels a ...
(d. 21 April 1636), the daughter of Joost of Eicken and Barbara of Moll.
Marriage and issue
Margrave Herman Fortunatus married his first wife on 18 April 1627. She was Antonia Elisabeth (d. 12 January 1635), a daughter of Count Christopher of Criechingen. They had the three children:
*
Charles William (1627-1666), a canon of Cologne, and the last Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern
* Leopold (1628-1635)
* Maria Sidonia (1635 – 15 August 1686), married on 12 November 1662 to Prince
Philip
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...
of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1601 – 13 January 1671)
Margrave Herman Fortunates then married his second wife. She was Maria Sidonia of Daun-Falkenstein (1605-1675), the daughter of the Count Philip Francis of Falkenstein. They had two children:
* Philip Balthasar (d. 1662)
* Maria Eleonora Sophia (d. 18 April 1668), married in 1665 with Count
John Francis Desideratus of Nassau-Siegen
John Francis Desideratus (28 July 1627 – 17 December 1699) was count of Nassau-Siegen and stadtholder of Limburg and Upper Guelders.
Life
John Francis Desideratus was the only son of Count John VIII of Nassau-Siegen, who had converted to C ...
(28 July 1627 – 17 December 1699)
Ancestors
See also
*
List of rulers of Baden
Baden was an Imperial Estate of the Holy Roman Empire and later one of the German states along the frontier with France, primarily consisting of territory along the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Alsace and the Palatinate.
History
The te ...
References
* Johann Christian Sachs: ''Einleitung in die Geschichte der Marggravschaft und des marggrävlichen altfürstlichen Hauses Baden'', part 3, Karlsruhe, 1769, S. 311-313,
Margraves of Baden
1595 births
1665 deaths
17th-century German people
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