Anna of Isenburg-Büdingen (1460 – 27 July 1522 in
Babenhausen) was a German noblewoman. She was a daughter of Count Louis II of
Isenburg-Büdingen and Countess Maria of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein.
Life
She married
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg on 9 September 1480. She needed a papal
dispensation for her marriage, because she was a fourth degree relative of Philip. She brought a
dowry
A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower. While bride price or bride service is a payment b ...
of 4500 guilders into the marriage. She received a
dower of 1000 guilders and a jointure of 450 guilders annually from the revenue of
Schaafheim
Schaafheim is a municipality in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hesse, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, a ...
Castle. They both renounced their claims on the Lordship of Büdingen.
Anna died on 27 July 1522 and was buried in the St. Nicholas church in Babenhausen, in front of the altar.
Issue
Anna and Philip had the following children together:
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Philip III (18 October 1482 – 15 May 1538).
# Anna (1485 – 11 October 1559), a nun in the
Marienborn Abbey
# Margaret (1486 – 6 August 1560 in Babenhausen), also nun in the Marienborn Abbey, interned for life at Babenhausen Castle, because of a "slip". She was buried in the St. Nicholas church in Babenhausen.
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Ludwig (5 October 1487 in
Buchsweiler – 3 December 1553 in
Willstätt
Willstätt is a town in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, with a population of 9,787 as at December 31, 2017. It is around east of Strasbourg's city centre.
Demographics
History Medieval
The earliest known mention ...
; buried in the St. Adelphi church in
Neuweiler
Neuweiler is a municipality of the Calw district and region of Karlsruhe of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
History
The municipality of Neuweiler was formed in 1975 by the merging of the towns of Agenbach, Breitenberg, Gaugenwald, Neuweiler, Oberko ...
), unmarried clergyman
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Maria (;
[Estimate based on the age on which she entered into the monastery and on her siblings] – probably 1526),
abbess
An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa''), also known as a mother superior, is the female superior of a community of Catholic nuns in an abbey.
Description
In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic ...
of
Klarenthal Abbey
Klarenthal Abbey (''Kloster Klarenthal'' in German) is a former convent of the Order of Poor Ladies in the borough of Klarenthal in Wiesbaden, Germany. Klarenthal is the only abbey in present-day Wiesbaden.
History as an active monastery
Klarent ...
from 1512 to 1525
# Amalia (7 June 1490 in Buchsweiler – 11 March 1552 in
Pfaffenhoffen
Pfaffenhoffen (; ; Alsatian: ''Pfàffoffe'') is a former commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Val-de-Moder.Neuweiler
Neuweiler is a municipality of the Calw district and region of Karlsruhe of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
History
The municipality of Neuweiler was formed in 1975 by the merging of the towns of Agenbach, Breitenberg, Gaugenwald, Neuweiler, Oberko ...
), a nun
#
Reinhard Reinhard is a German, Austrian, Danish, and to a lesser extent Norwegian surname (from Germanic ''ragin'', counsel, and ''hart'', strong), and a spelling variant of Reinhardt.
Persons with the given name
* Reinhard of Blankenburg (after 1107 – 1 ...
(19 February 1494 in
Klingenberg am Main – 7 June 1490 in Buchsweiler; buried in the St. Adelphi in Neuweiler), joined the clergy
References
* J. G. Lehmann: ''Urkundliche Geschichte der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg im unteren Elsasse'', 2 vols, 1862, reprinted: Pirmasens 1970
* Sebastian Scholz: ''Die Inschriften der Stadt Darmstadt und des Landkreises Darmstadt-Dieburg und Groß-Gerau'', in the series ''Die deutschen Inschriften'' vol. 49, Mainzer series, vol. 6, ed. by Akademie der Wissenschaften Mainz, Wiesbaden 1999
* Reinhard Suchier: ''Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhausen'', 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
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House of Hanau
House of Isenburg
1460 births
1522 deaths
15th-century German women
15th-century German people
16th-century German people