Anna of Isenburg-Büdingen (1460 – 27 July 1522 in
Babenhausen) was a German noblewoman. She was a daughter of Count Louis II of
Isenburg-Büdingen and Countess Maria of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein.
Life
She married
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg on 9 September 1480. She needed a papal
dispensation for her marriage, because she was a fourth degree relative of Philip. She brought a
dowry of 4500 guilders into the marriage. She received a
dower of 1000 guilders and a jointure of 450 guilders annually from the revenue of
Schaafheim Castle. They both renounced their claims on the Lordship of Büdingen.
Anna died on 27 July 1522 and was buried in the St. Nicholas church in Babenhausen, in front of the altar.[1]
Issue
Anna and Philip had the following children together:
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. Nicholas church in Babenhausen.
Amalia (7 June 1490 in Buchsweiler – 11 March 1552 in
Pfaffenhoffen; buried in the St. Adelphi church in
Neuweiler), a nun
Reinhard (19 February 1494 in
Klingenberg am Main – 7 June 1490 in Buchsweiler; buried in the St. Adelphi in Neuweiler), joined the clergy
References
J. G. Lehmann: Urkundliche Geschichte der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg im unteren Elsasse, 2 vols, 1862, reprinted: Pirmasens 1970
Sebastian Scholz: Die Inschriften der Stadt Darmstadt und des Landkreises Darmstadt-Dieburg und Groß-Gerau, in the series Die deutschen Inschriften vol. 49, Mainzer series, vol. 6, ed. by Akademie der Wissenschaften Mainz, Wiesbaden 1999
Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhausen, in: Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Hanau, 1894
Ernst J. Zimmermann, Hanau Stadt und Land, 3rd ed., Hanau, 1919, reprinted 1978