Countess Magdalena of Waldeck
Magdalene von Waldeck (* 1558, † August 1599 ) was a daughter of Philip IV of Waldeck- Wildungen (* 1493, † 1574 ) and his wife, Jutta von Isenburg - border tax adjustments († 1564). Magdalene was married twice,
Her first marriage to Philipp Ludwig I of Hanau- coins mountain has some special features for its time. For one, it seems to have been a love match. Corporative Magdalene was classified as low Philip. Politically marriage by her groom also a conscious discontinuation against the politically dominant influence of his guardian, Count John VI. of Nassau- Dillenburg, represent. So the marriage took place despite the initial resistance of the Nassauer guardian, who would have a marriage in the context of their own clans preferred. Your own family was oriented more towards the country county of Hesse and the Archdiocese of Cologne.
On the occasion of her second marriage, she took the Reformed confession of her second husband. She moved with him to Dillenburg, where she took the two surviving children from his first marriage. Thus came mainly the Government successor in the county of Hanau - coins mountain, Philipp Ludwig II, early among Reformed influence, which would mark him and that caused it in 1595 in Hanau- coins mountain " second Reformation " in the reformed version of the Reformation introduced as binding.