Eleonore of Fürstenberg


Eleonore of Fürstenberg 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
  2. Philip V
  3. Anna Sibylle, married to Louis of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
  4. Johanna, married to Wolfgang of Isenburg-Büdingen-Ronneburg, divorced in 1573
  5. Eleanor, married to Albert of Hohenlohe
She died in childbirth in 1544, only 21 years old, and was buried in the Abbey of St. Adelphi in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne.

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