Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel

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Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel (27 January 1567,

Life

Anna Maria was the eldest daughter of Landgrave

She married on 8 June 1589 in Kassel Count

Anna Maria helped organize the poor relief and set up a court pharmacy.

In 1626 Anna Maria fled from the plague from Saarbrücken to Neunkirchen where she died of the plague. Anna Maria was buried in the crypt of the collegiate church of St. Arnual in Saarbrücken. A few years earlier, she had built an impressive tomb for three of her children and now she was buried in this tomb herself.

Offspring

From her marriage with Louis, Anna Maria had the following children:

• William Louis (1590–1640), Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken

married in 1615 princess

Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach

(1595-1651)

• Anna Sabine (1591–1593)
• Albrecht (1593–1595)
• Sophie Amalie (1594–1612)
• Georg Adolf (1595–1596)
• Philipp (1597–1621)
• Luise Juliane (1598–1622)
• Moritz (1599–1601)
• Karl Ernst (1600–1604)
• Marie Elisabeth (1602–1626)

married in 1624 Count Frederick X of Leiningen-Dagsburg (1593-1651)

• John (1603–1677), Count of Nassau-Idstein

married firstly in 1644 Princess Magdalene Sibylle of Baden-Durlach (1605-1644)

married secondly in 1646 Countess Anna of Leiningen (1625-1668)

• Dorothea (1605–1620)
• Ernest Casimir (1607–1655), Count of Nassau-Weilburg

married in 1634 Countess Anna Maria of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1610-1656)

• Otto (1610–1632), Count of Nassau-Weilburg in Neuweilnau

References

• Fried Köllner: Geschichte des vormaligen Nassau-sarbrück'schen Landes und seiner Regenten, p. 307

External links

• Entry for Anna Maria on the Saarländische Biografien site
• Joachim Conrad (2005). "LUDWIG II. gen. Felix von Nassau-Saarbrücken". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 25. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 856–862.
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