Hedwig of Hesse-Kassel

Hedwig of Hesse- Kassel (* June 30, 1569 in Kassel, † July 7, 1644 in Hagen ) was a princess of Hesse- Kassel and by marriage Princess of Schaumburg.

Life

Hedwig was a daughter of Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse -Kassel (1532-1592) from his marriage with Sabine (1549-1581), daughter of Duke Christoph of Württemberg.

She married on 11 September 1597 Castle William Castle in Schmalkalden Count Ernst von Holstein - Schaumburg ( 1569-1622 ). Hedwig's brother Moritz had, however, made ​​in advertising in 1593 as a condition that should receive serious proportion in the government of his half-brother Adolf. After the comparison Mindner 1595 Ernst received the lower county Schaumburg awarded the offices Sachsenhagen, Hagen castle and Bokeloh. After his brother 's death in 1601 was a sovereign Ernst Graf von Holstein - Schaumburg and finally collected in 1620 in the imperial princes.

In the joint residence of the couple in Sachsenhagen the existing castle was rebuilt into a castle, before Ernst 's seat of government moved first city of Hagen.

After the death of her husband Hedwig ended in 1627 the construction of the Princely Mausoleum at St. - Martini Church in the city of Hagen in whose tomb it is also buried. Your epitaph contains a Latin inscription that says: ". There is no other, holier decision of widowhood, than what is entrusted by the last will pass the Stay and ends it when it realizes to be careful, "

Their marriage was childless and Hedwig managed her jointure city and department city of Hagen. Owned a hessian -interest-bearing bond of 100,000 thalers, she put her nephew Wilhelm of an annual pension and bequeathed his bond, her jointure and all rights to the County of Schaumburg the Countess Amalie, they also determined the executor of her will.