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Landgravine Elisabeth Juliana Francisca of Hesse-Homburg (6 January 1681 – 12 November 1707), German: Elisabeth Juliana Franziska Landgräfin von Hessen-Homburg, official titles: Landgräfin zu Hessen, Fürstin zu Hersfeld, Gräfin zu Katzenelnbogen, Diez, Ziegenhain, Nidda, Schaumburg, Isenburg und Büdingen, was a landgravine from the House of Hesse-Homburg and through marriage Fürstin of Nassau-Siegen.
Elisabeth Juliana Francisca of Hesse-Homburg | |
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Fürstin of Nassau-Siegen | |
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Full name | Elisabeth Juliana Francisca Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg |
Native name | Elisabeth Juliana Franziska Landgräfin von Hessen-Homburg |
Born | Elisabeth Juliana Franziska Landgräfin zu Hessen, Fürstin zu Hersfeld, Gräfin zu Katzenelnbogen, Diez, Ziegenhain, Nidda, Schaumburg, Isenburg und Büdingen 6 January 1681 Homburg Castle |
Baptised | 13 January 1681 Siegen |
Died | 12 November 1707 26) Nassauischer Hof , Siegen | (aged
Buried | 14 November 1707 Fürstengruft , Siegen |
Noble family | House of Hesse-Homburg |
Spouse(s) | Frederick William Adolf of Nassau-Siegen |
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Father | Frederick II of Hesse-Homburg |
Mother | Louise Elisabeth of Courland |
Elisabeth Juliana Francisca was born at Homburg Castle[1] on 6 January 1681,[2][note 1] the fifth daughter of Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Homburg and his second wife Duchess Louise Elisabeth of Courland.[4] Elisabeth Juliana Francisca was baptised on 13 January.[3][5]
Elisabeth Juliana Francisca married at Homburg Castle[6][7] on 7 January 1702[5][6][8][note 2] to Fürst Frederick William Adolf of Nassau-Siegen[note 3] (Nassauischer Hof , Siegen,[11] 20 February 1680[2] – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen,[11] 13 February 1722[12]), the eldest son of Fürst William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen and Princess Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg.[4] On the death of his father in 1691, Frederick William Adolf succeeded his father as the territorial lord of the Protestant part of the principality of Nassau-Siegen and co-ruler of the city of Siegen.[11] He possessed the district of Siegen (with the exception of seven villages) and the districts of Hilchenbach and Freudenberg. He shared the city of Siegen with the Catholic Fürst of Nassau-Siegen.[13] Frederick William Adolf also succeeded his father as count of Bronkhorst, lord of Wisch , Borculo , Lichtenvoorde and Wildenborch , and hereditary knight banneret of the Duchy of Guelders and the County of Zutphen.[14] Because he was still a minor, he was under the custody and regency of his mother until 1701.[11][7]
The hospitality of the magistrate of Siegen was always guided by the utmost frugality. When Elisabeth Juliana Francisca's father (who later became known in literature as Prinz Friedrich von Homburg through Heinrich von Kleist) visited the Nassauischer Hof in 1702, he was given the obligatory gift of wine by the city. At an evening reception in the town hall, however, the landgrave had to settle for beer, because – according to the city's accounts – "er seinen Wein bereits erhalten habe" ("he already had received his wine"). As a special honour, however, the magistrate had engaged the city pipers from Cologne for the festive reception, who certainly played at the dinner and the ball.[15]
Elisabeth Juliana Francisca died in the Nassauischer Hof in Siegen[1] on 12 November 1707,[12] 26 years old, five days after the birth of her daughter Sophia Elizabeth.[16] She was buried in the Fürstengruft[1][17] there on 14 November.[1][5]
Frederick William Adolf remarried at the Old Castle in Bayreuth[7][18] on 13 April 1708[7][8][note 4][18] to his first cousin Duchess Amalie Louise of Courland (Mitau, 23 July 1687[8][note 5][19] – Unteres Schloss , Siegen,[19] 18 January 1750[12]), the third daughter of Duke Frederick Casimir of Courland and his first wife Princess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen.[4] Amalie Louise was not only a first cousin of Frederick William Adolf but also of Elisabeth Juliana Francisca.[20]
In October 1712 Frederick William Adolf and William Hyacinth, the Catholic Fürst of Nassau-Siegen, reached an agreement about their share in the city of Siegen. William Hyacinth ceded the Catholic land to Frederick William Adolf in exchange for an annual pension of 12,000 Reichsthalers. There was even an intention to marry off Maria Anna Josepha, William Hyacinth's underage daughter, to the even younger reformed Hereditary Prince Frederick William, Elisabeth Juliana Francisca's only son. All this was done not in the least to get rid of the troublesome foreign administration.[21] Since April 1707 the Catholic part of the principality of Nassau-Siegen had, by order of the Aulic Council, been under the administration of the cathedral chapter in Cologne, due to the maladministration of William Hyacinth (because the Archbishop of Cologne was in imperial ban at the time, the cathedral chapter governed the Archdiocese of Cologne).[22] Frederick William succeeded his father in 1722 but was under the custody and regency of his stepmother Amalie Louise until 1727.[19]
From the marriage of Elisabeth Juliana Francisca and Frederick William Adolf the following children were born:[5][23][24]
Ancestors of Elisabeth Juliana Francisca of Hesse-Homburg[20][28][29][30][31][32] | ||||||||
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Great-great-grandparents | Philip I 'the Magnanimous' of Hesse (1504–1567) ⚭ 1523 Christine of Saxony (1505–1549) |
Bernhard VIII of Lippe (1527–1563) ⚭ 1550 Catherine of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1524–1583) |
George I of Leiningen-Westerburg (1533–1586) ⚭ 1570 Margaret of Isenburg-Birstein (1542–1612) |
Simon Ungnad von Weißenwolff (?–?) ⚭ ? Katharina von Plesse (?–?) |
Gotthard of Courland (ca. 1517–1587) ⚭ 1566 Anne of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1533–1602) |
Albert Frederick of Prussia (1553–1618) ⚭ 1573 Marie Eleonore of Jülich (1550–1608) |
John Sigismund of Brandenburg (1572–1620) ⚭ 1594 Anne of Prussia (1576–1625) |
Frederick IV of the Palatinate (1574–1610) ⚭ 1593 Louise Juliana of Nassau (1576–1644) |
Great-grandparents | George I 'the Pious' of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547–1596) ⚭ 1572 Magdalene of Lippe (1552–1587) |
Christopher of Leiningen-Westerburg (1575–1635) ⚭ 1601 Anna Maria Ungnad von Weißenwolff (1573–1606) |
William of Courland (1574–1640) ⚭ 1609 Sophie of Prussia (1582–1610) |
George William of Brandenburg (1595–1640) ⚭ 1616 Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (1597–1660) | ||||
Grandparents | Frederick I 'the Elder' of Hesse-Homburg (1585–1638) ⚭ 1622 Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg (1604–1667) |
Jacob of Courland (1610–1682) ⚭ 1645 Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg (1617–1676) | ||||||
Parents | Frederick II of Hesse-Homburg (1633–1708) ⚭ 1670 Louise Elisabeth of Courland (1646–1690) |
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