Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt
Anna Eleonore of Hesse- Darmstadt ( born July 30, 1601 Darmstadt, † May 6, 1659 in Schloss Herzberg ), was Duchess and regent of Brunswick- Lüneburg.
Life
Anna Eleanor was a daughter of the Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577-1626) from his marriage to Magdalena (1582-1616), daughter of the Elector Johann Georg of Brandenburg.
She married on 14 December 1617 in Darmstadt, later to become the Duke George of Brunswick and Lüneburg. The marriage, in which a multiplicity of princes in Darmstadt were present, was celebrated very complex. The marriage with Anna Eleonore had great influence on the policy of George Hesse war of houses in Darmstadt and Hessen- Kassel to Marburg. George knew the good relations of his father to the imperial family to use for themselves. Anna Eleanor had with her father on an enormous correspondence of a political nature.
The Duke certain in his will his wife Anna Eleanor, next to his brother and his brother in law, to the guardian of their sons. The widow gave her father's house devoted to her brother Johann takes the command of the Brunswick- Lüneburg troops.
Anna Eleanor lived until her death on her widow's residence Herzberg Castle, where all their children were born. Therefore, it is considered the cradle of the English royal house.
Anna Eleanor was buried in the royal crypt in St. Mary's Church in Celle.
Progeny
From her marriage Anna Eleanor had eight children:
- Magdalene (* / † 1618)
- Christian Ludwig (1622-1665), Duke of Calenberg and Celle
- Georg Wilhelm (1624-1705), Duke of Kalenberg, Celle, Dannenberg and Saxony- Lauenburg
- Johann Friedrich (1625-1679), Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg to Hannover
- Sophia Amalia (1628-1685)
- Dorothea Magdalene (1629-1630), twin sister of
- Ernst August (1629-1698), Elector of Hanover
- Anna (1630-1636)