Agnes of Solms-Laubach

Agnes of Solms- Laubach ( born January 7, 1578 Laubach, † November 23, 1602 in Laubach ) was a countess of Solms- Laubach and by marriage Countess of Hesse- Kassel.

Life

Agnes was the daughter of Count Johann Georg Solms- Laubach (1546-1600) from his marriage to Margaret (1554-1606), daughter of Count Georg I. von Schoenburg - Glauchau.

She married 15 -year-old on September 23, 1593 in Kassel Landgrave Moritz of Hesse- Kassel, who had met at the wedding of his eldest sister Anna Maria. The wedding was celebrated lavishly and attended by numerous princely people. The marriage to the Calvinist Countess reinforced Moritz's relations with the Calvinist Count of Wetterau considerably, although Moritz Agnes had more than selected from inclination of dynastic calculation to wife.

Agnes was described as exceptionally talented, beautiful and gracious. Matthäus Merian made ​​an engraving of the countess with her husband and children. About his great loss Moritz reported in writing on the day after the death of his wife to King Henry IV of France.

Progeny

From her marriage Agnes had the following children:

• Otto (1594-1617)

• Elisabeth (1596-1625)

• Moritz (1600-1612)
• William V (1602-1637), Landgrave of Hesse -Kassel: ∞ 1619 Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau- coins Berg ( 1602-1651 )