Wilhelmina von Hessen-Rotenburg

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Wilhelmina Maria of Hesse-Rotenburg (born 16th February 1755 at Rotenburg Castle ; 9. December 1816 in Frankfurt am Main) was a landgravial princess of the Hesse-Rotenburg line of the House of Hesse and became Provost in the secular Ladies' Sister Monastery of Essen.

Life Wilhelmina was a daughter of the paraged Landgrave Constantine of Hesse-Rotenburg (1716–1778) and his wife Sophie von Starhemberg (1722–1773). Her siblings with whom they grew up were:

   Karl Emanuel (1746–1812, Hereditary Prince)
   Clementina (1747–1813, Abbess in the Carmelite monastery of Jülich)
   Hedwig (1748–1801, by marriage Duchess of Bouillon)
   Christian (1750–1782, canon of Cologne and Strasbourg)
   Karl Konstantin (1752–1821, general, also known as “Citoyen Hesse”)
   Antonia Friderica Josepha (1753–1823, nun)
   Ernst (1758–1784, Hesse-office officer)

Wilhelmina was prebended in the Ladies Abbey of Essen in 1777 and took this beneficiary on 10. November 1778 in the possession. The following year, she was accepted into the monastery chapter. In the Thorn Abbey, it was also in possession of a prebend. With the election as Provost in Essen in 1792, she was appointed head of the Essen Abbey. The election was only reached in the second round after the first round was invalid. With secularization, the Essen Pen was abolished in 1803. Nevertheless, through skilful negotiations, Wilhelmina succeeded in securing the continuation of their income from the provost. From 1796 to 1807 it was also a moist in the monastery of Elten. In 1816 Wilhelmina found her final resting place in the municipal cemetery in Frankfurt am Main.