Princess Marie Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg


Princess Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg was Landgravine of Hesse-Rotenburg by birth and was the Countess Palatine of Sulzbach by marriage.

Biography

Maria Eleonore was the second child of William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and his wife Countess Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. She was an older sister of Ernest Leopold of Hesse-Rotenburg, future ruler of her native Hesse-Rotenburg.
Engaged to Theodore Eustace of Sulzbach, the heir of the ruling Count Palatine of Sulzbach Christian Augustus, the couple were married on 9 June 1692 in Lobositz, Bohemia. The couple had some nine children three of which would have further progeny.
Princess Maria Eleonore died in Sulzbach at the age of 44.

Issue

  1. Countess Palatine Amalia Auguste Maria Anna of Sulzbach died unmarried.
  2. Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach married Elisabeth Auguste of Neuburg and had issue.
  3. Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach Abbess of Essen.
  4. Countess Palatine Ernestine Elizabeth Johanna of Sulzbach married William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels, no issue.
  5. Count Palatine John William Philip of Sulzbach died in infancy.
  6. John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach married Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne and had issue; married Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg, no issue.
  7. Countess Palatine Elisabeth Eleonore Auguste of Sulzbach died in infancy.
  8. Countess Palatine Anne Christine of Sulzbach married Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont and had issue.
  9. Count Palatine Johann Wilhelm August of Sulzbach died in infancy.