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Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Born(1564-07-06)6 July 1564
Château de Lichtenberg
Died24 March 1646(1646-03-24) (aged 81)
Runkel
Noble familyHouse of Hanau
Spouse(s)Wilhelm IV of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg
FatherPhilipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
MotherLudowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch

Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg (6 July 1564[1] at Château de Lichtenberg – 24 March 1636 in Runkel) was the first child of Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg from his first marriage with countess Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (1540-1569).

Marriage and issue

On 1 February 1582, Johanna Sibylla married Count Wilhelm IV of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (1581 – 13 September 1612), the son of Count Johann IV of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (d. 15 June 1581) and Katharina of Hanau, Countess of Wied (1525-1581). William succeeded his father in 1581 as Count of Upper Wied (Runkel and Dierdorf) and in the rest of Wied in 1595. Six daughters were born in this marriage:

  1. Juliana (d. 24 August 1635), married on 18 May 1634 to Count Ludwig IV of Löwenstein-Wertheim (1598-1657)
  2. Elizabeth (24 August 1593 – 28 June 1635), married on 13 September 1614 to Count Philipp of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
  3. Katharina Philippina Walpurgis (d. 1647), married on 29 October 1611 in Schadeck to Count Christoph of Leiningen-Westerburg (d. 1635)
  4. Maria Anna Magdalena, married in 1628 to Adolf of Wylich-Döringen
  5. Aemilia
  6. Johanetta

Ancestors

Family of Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg
8. Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1482-1538)
4. Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514-1590)
9. Sibylle of Baden (1482-1538)
2. Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1541-1599)
10. Frederick II of Fürstenberg (1496-1559)
5. Eleonore of Fürstenberg (1523-1544)
11. Anna of Werdenberg (d. 1554)
1. Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg
12. Reinhard of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (d. 1532)
6. James of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (1510-1570)
13. Anna of Salm (d.1541)
3. Countess Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (1523-1544)
14. Ernst V of Honstein (d. 1552)
7. Catherine of Honstein (d. 1570)
15. Anna of Bentheim

References

  • Adrian Willem Eliza Dek: De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster, Zaltbommel, 1968.
  • Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten. NF IV, Taf. 36.
  • Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, 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

  1. ^ She was baptized on 17 July 1564


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