Eleonore of Fürstenberg

Eleonore of Fürstenberg
Spouse(s)	Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Father	Frederick III of Fürstenberg
Mother	Anna of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg
Born	11 October 1523
Died	23 June 1544 (aged 20) Bouxwiller
Buried	Abbey of St. Adelphi in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne

Eleonore of Fürstenberg (11 October 1523 – 23 June 1544^[1] in Bouxwiller) was a daughter of Count Frederick III of Fürstenberg. Eleanore was a convinced Protestant. However, she had little influence on the change of denomination in Hanau-Lichtenberg, due to her untimely death.

On 22 August 1538 in Heiligenberg, she married Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg. They had the following children:

1. Amalie (23 February 1540 in Bouxwiller – 1 May 1540)
2. Philip V (21 February 1541, Bouxwiller, – 1599)
3. Anna Sibylle (16 May 1542 – after 1590), married to Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
4. Johanna (23 May 1543 in Bouxwiller; – 5 December 1599 in Babenhausen, buried there), married to Wolfgang of Isenburg-Büdingen-Ronneburg, divorced in 1573
5. Eleanor (26 April 1544 in Bouxwiller; – 6 January 1585), married to Albert of Hohenlohe

She died in childbirth in 1544, only 21 years old,^[2] and was buried in the Abbey of St. Adelphi in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne.

References

• M. Goltzené: Aus der Geschichte des Amtes Buchsweiler, in: Pay d’Alsace, issue 111/112, p. 67.
• 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. In a deed archived in the state archives in Darmstadt under the signature D7:1/1, her death date is stated as 29 June 1544
2. Zimmern Chronicle, vol 3, p 440, Online