Countess Palatine Claudia Magdalena of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (also known as ''Magdalena Claudine''; 16 September 1668 – 28 November 1704 in
Hanau
Hanau () is a city in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its railway Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ma ...
), the Countess consort of
Hanau-Münzenberg
The County of Hanau-Münzenberg was a territory within the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged when the County of Hanau was divided in 1458, the other part being the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Due to common heirs, both counties were merged from 1642 t ...
.
Early life and ancestry
Magdalena Claudia was the eldest daughter of the Count Palatine
Christian II
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of
Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler was a state of the Holy Roman Empire based around Bischwiller. It was formed in 1600, after the separation from Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and was incorporated into Palatine Zweibrücken in 1731.
Histo ...
(born: 22 June 1637; died: 26 April 1717) and his wife, Countess Catherine Agathe of
Rappoltstein (1648-1683).
Marriage
She married on in Hanau her cousin, Count
Philip Reinhard of Hanau-Münzenberg (1664–1712). The dowry was .
Issue
From her marriage with Philip Reinhard, she had the following children:
# Stillbirth (1691), buried in the crypt of the St. John's Church (now called Old St. John's Church) in Hanau
# Stillbirth (1693);
# Catharine Magdalene (born: ; died: ), buried in the crypt of St John's Church in Hanau
Death
She died on 28 November 1704 and was buried in the crypt of the Lutheran Church in Hanau, on 18 December 1704, aged 37. During the mourning, the biggest bell in St. John's Church broke. This was a bell she had donated. The burial site of the
Lutheran
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branch of the House of Hanau - and thus the burial of Countess Claudia Magdalena - was destroyed during the
Second World War
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References
* Reinhard Dietrich: ''Die Landesverfassung in dem Hanauischen'' = ''Hanauer Geschichtsblätter'', vol. 34, Hanau, 1996.
* Rudolf Lenz: ''Katalog der Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Trauerschriften in der Hessischen Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek Darmstadt'' = ''Marburger Personalschriftenforschungen'', vol. 11, Sigmaringen, 1990
* Rudolf Lenz: ''Katalog der Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Trauerschriften in der Universitätsbibliothek Gießen'' = ''Marburger Personalschriftenforschungen'', vol. 15, Sigmaringen, 1994
* Rudolf Lenz: ''Katalog der Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Trauerschriften im Hessischen Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden'' = ''Marburger Personalschriftenforschungen'', vol. 7,1, Marburg, 1985
* Reinhard Suchier: ''Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses'', in: ''Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894'', Hanau, 1894
* Reinhard Suchier: ''Die Grabmonumente und Särge der in Hanau bestatteten Personen aus den Häusern Hanau und Hessen'', in: ''Programm des Königlichen Gymnasiums zu Hanau'', Hanau, 1879, p. 1-56.
* Richard Wille: ''Die letzten Grafen von Hanau-Lichtenberg'', in: ''Mitteilungen des Hanauer Bezirksvereins für hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde'', vol. 12, Hanau, 1886, p. 56-68
* Ernst J. Zimmermann: ''Hanau Stadt und Land'', 3rd ed., Hanau, 1919, reprinted: 1978
Footnotes
House of Wittelsbach
Countesses of Hanau-Münzenberg
1668 births
1704 deaths
17th-century German people
Daughters of counts
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