Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Spouse(s)	Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
Noble family	House of Hanau
Father	Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Mother	Eleonore of Fürstenberg
Born	16 May 1542 Lichtenberg
Died	5 January 1580 (aged 37)

Countess Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg (16 May 1542 in Lichtenberg – 5 January 1580^[1]) was the eldest surviving daughter of Count Philipp IV (20 May 1512 – 19 February 1590) and his wife, Countess Eleonore of Fürstenberg (11 October 1523 – 26 April 1544).

Marriage and issue

Anna Sibylle married on 12 October 1562 ^[2] to Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (1542-1577). They had a son: Philipp Wolfgang of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (d. 1618).

Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg
∞ Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl

Philip Wolfgang of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (d. 1618)

∞ 1 Alexandra of Rappoltstein (15 March 1565 – 9 April 1610)

Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (1588-1644), regent of Hanau, last of the Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl line

∞ 2 Maria Magdalena of Hohensachsen (d. after 1628)

Legacy

This marriage proved to be important to the history of the House of Hanau and the counties of Hanau-Münzenberg and Hanau-Lichtenberg, because her grandson Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl played a major rôle during the final phase of the Thirty Years' War. He acted as regent for the underage count Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1641 to 1647 and in Hanau-Münzneberg from 1642 to 1647. Georg II achieved the reunification of the two parts of Hanau, despite resistance of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, who was the liege lord of Hanau-Münzenberg.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg

8. Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1462-1504)                       4. Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1482-1533)                             9. Anna of Isenburg-Büdingen (d. 1522)                       2. Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514-159)                                   10. Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1453-1527)                       5. Sibylle of Baden (1485-1518)                             11. Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen (1453-1517)                       1. Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg                                         12. Wolfgang of Fürstenberg (1465-1509)                       6. Friedrich II of Fürstenberg (1496-1559)                             13. Elisabeth of Solms-Braunfels (1469-1514)                       3. Eleonore of Fürstenberg (1523-1544)                                   14. Christoph of Werdenberg (d. 1534)                       7. Anna of Werdenberg (d. 1554)                             15. Eleonora Gonzaga of Mantua (d. 1512)

References

• Reinhard Dietrich: Die Landesverfassung in dem Hanauischen, in the series Hanauer Geschichtsblätter, vol. 34, Hanau, 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
• Wilhelm Morhardt: Hanau alt's - in Ehren b'halt's — Die Grafen von Hanau-Lichtenberg in Geschichte und Geschichten, in the series Babenhausen einst und jetzt, vol. 10, Babenhausen, 1984
• Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, new series, vol. VII, table 26
• 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. This is according to Freitag von Loringhoven, vol. 3, table 85: Hanau-Lichtenberg; Morhardt says she died on 23 March 1612, without naming his source
2. Hesse State Archive in Marburg, file 81: Government Hanau, item 12.6f