Elisabeth (Hessen) Pfalz-Simmern (1539 - 1582)

Born 13 Feb 1539 in Kassel, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia

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Died 14 Mar 1582 at age 43 in Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden

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Elisabeth Hessen was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Elisabeth of Hesse was born at Kassel, 13 February 1539, the seventh child of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse and his first wife Christine of Saxony.

She was betrothed at Marburg on 29 January 1560 and married there 8 July 1560 to Ludwig VI, Count Palatine of Simmern, and Elector Palatine

They had 12 children, though only 4 survived childhood;

1. Maria, born 24 July 1561 at Heidelberg, married there 11 May 1579, Carl IX, King of Sweden, and had issue;
2. Elisabeth (I), born 15 June 1562 at Heidelberg, and died 2 November 1562;
3. Dorothea Elisabeth, born 12 January 1565 at Jagdschloss Deinschwang in Upper Palatine, died young the 7 March 1565, buried in St Martin Church, Amberg;
4. Dorothea, born 4 August 1566 at Amberg, died young 10 March 1568, also buried in St Martin, Amberg;
5. Friedrich Philipp, born 19 October 1567 Amberg, died young 14 November 1567, buried Church of St Martin;
6. Johann Friedrich, born 17 February 1569 at Amberg, died 20 March 1569;
7. Ludwig, born 30 December 1570 at Amberg, died young 7 May 1571;
8. Katharina, born in April 1572, probably at Amberg, died 16 October 1586, probably buried in Heidelberg;
9. Christine, born 6 January 1573 at Schloss Hirschwald in the Upper Palatine, died in Zweibrücken on 21 July 1619 adn was buried there in Johann's crypt in Alexander Kirche;
10. Friedrich IV, born 5 March 1574 at Amberg, succeeded his father as Elector Palatine;
11. Philipp, born 4 May 1575 at Amberg, died young 8 August 1575;
12. Elisabeth (II), born 24 November 1576 at Amberg, died in Heidelberg 10 April 1577

Elisabeth, died 14/24 March 1582 at Heidelberg and was buried there.

Sources

• Häutle, Christian, (1870), Genealogie der erlauchten Stammhauses Wittelsbach, München : Hermann Manzsche Hofkunsthandlung und Buchhandlung. Digitised by Google Books. pages 55 & 57.

• Histoire Genealogique de La Maison Souveraine de Hesse, (1819), Vol 1., Strasbourg: F. G. Levrault. Digitised by Google Books, p. 465.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Torbjörn Forsström, Allen Woods and Enno Borgsteede for creating this profile on 16 July 2011, 15 July 2013 and 30 October 2013 respectively.

Atkinson-107 18:43, 5 October 2014 (EDT)