Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

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Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Born(1462-05-31)31 May 1462
Hanau, County of Hanau
Died22 August 1504(1504-08-22) (aged 42)
Babenhausen,
County of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Noble familyHouse of Hanau
Spouse(s)Anna of Isenburg-Büdingen
FatherPhilipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Mother

Philipp II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (born 31 May 1462 in Hanau; died: 22 August 1504 in Babenhausen) ruled the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1480 until his death.

Early life[]

Philipp II was born on 31 May 1462 between 21:00 and 22:00, as the second son of the Count Philipp I, the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen[1] and his wife, . He was baptized three days after the birth, in the St. Mary's Church in Hanau. His godparents were Konrad Brelle, abbot of , Wenceslaus of Cleves and Meze of Gemmingen, the widow of Eber-hard Waißen.

His older brother, Johann, died young, so that Philipp succeeded his father as Count of Hanau-Babenhausen.

Family[]

Marriage and issue[]

He married on 9 September 1480 with Anna of Isenburg-Büdingen (d. 1522). A papal dispensation had been necessary for this marriage because they were related to each other in the fourth degree. They had the following children:

  1. Philipp III (18 October 1482 – 15 May 1538).
  2. Anna (1485 – 11 October 1559), a nun in the
  3. Margaret (1486 – 6 August 1560 in Babenhausen), also nun in the Marienborn Abbey, interned for life at Babenhausen Castle,[2] because of a "slip".[3] She was buried in the St. Nikolaus church in Babenhausen.
  4. Ludwig (born: 5 October 1487 in Buchsweiler; died: 3 December 1553 in Willstätt; buried in the St. Adelphi church in Neuweiler), unmarried clergyman
  5. (born: c. 1487;[4] died: probably 1526), abbess of Klarenthal Abbey from 1512 to 1525
  6. Amalia (born: 7 June 1490 in Buchsweiler; died 11 March 1552 in Pfaffenhoffen; buried in the St. Adelphi church in Neuweiler), a nun
  7. (born: 19 February 1494 in Klingenberg am Main; died in Buchsweiler; buried in the St. Adelphi in Neuweiler), joined the clergy

Ancestors[]

References[]

  • M. Goltzené: Aus der Geschichte des Amtes Buchsweiler, in: Pay d’Alsace, vol. 111/112, p. 64 ff
  • Hatstein, hand-written chronicle in the archives of the
  • E. Haug: Groß-Arnsburg bei Baerental, in: Wasgaublick, vol. 19, issue 10, 1991, p. 364-419.
  • Bernhard Herzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Elsasser Chronick unnd außführliche beschreibung des unteren Elsasses am Rheinstrom, Strasbourg, 1592
  • J. G. Lehmann: Urkundliche Geschichte der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg im unteren Elsasse, two vols., 1862, reprinted: Pirmasens, 1970
  • Eckhard Meise: Bernhard Hundeshagen - kein Denkmalschutz im Hanau des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte, 2006, p. 3-62.
  • Wilhelm Morhardt: Hanau alt's - in Ehren b'halt's - Die Grafen von Hanau-Lichtenberg in Geschichte und Geschichten = Babenhausen einst und jetzt, vol. 10, Babenhausen, 1984
  • Reinhold Röhricht and Heinrich Meisner: Deutsche Pilgerreisen nach dem Heiligen Lande, Berlin, 1880
  • Sebastian Scholz: Die Inschriften der Stadt Darmstadt und des Landkreises Darmstadt-Dieburg und Groß-Gerau = Die deutschen Inschriften vol. 49, series Mainze, vol. 6. ed. by Akademie der Wissenschaften Mainz, Wiesbaden, 1999
  • Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, in: Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Hanau, 1894
  • Georg Wittenberger: Stadtlexikon Babenhausen, Babenhausen, 1995
  • Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land, 3rd ed., Hanau 1919, reprinted: 1978

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ He is often called Philipp I of Hanau-Lichtenberg, but this is an anachronism, as his part of the county was not called Hanau-Lichtenberg until after his death
  2. ^ Morhardt, p. 34
  3. ^ Only Wittenberg, p. 92, explicitly calls it a pregnancy
  4. ^ Estimate based on the age on which she entered into the monastery and on her siblings
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
House of Hanau
Born: 31 May 1462 Died: 22 August 1504
Preceded by
Philipp I 		Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
1489–1504 		Succeeded by
Philipp III
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