Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg


Countess Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg was a German noblewoman. She was born in Lichtenberg, the eldest surviving daughter of Count Philipp IV and his wife, Countess Eleonore of Fürstenberg.

Marriage and issue

Anna Sibylle married on 12 October 1562 to Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl. They had a son: Philipp Wolfgang of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl.
Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg
∞ Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl

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 role 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.

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